The TARGA (Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter) format was created by Truevision Inc. (now part of Avid Technology) as the native format of TARGA and VISTA graphics cards. TARGA files are used to render still images and to render sequences of still images to video.
TARGA Product and System Requirements
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Format |
FME Platform |
Operating System |
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Reader/Writer |
FME Form |
FME Flow |
FME Flow Hosted |
Windows 64-bit |
Linux |
Mac |
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Reader |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Reader Overview
FME considers a single TARGA file to be a dataset.
The TARGA file contains pixel data, and each pixel in the file is a point in a single FME raster feature.
The reader supports reading 1-band (Monochrome), 2-band (Monochrome with Alpha), 3-band (RGB), and 4-band (RGBA) TARGA images as per the TGA 2.0 standard.
FME Raster Features
FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data.
For comprehensive information about how FME processes raster data, see Rasters.
TARGA files can be written with non-square pixel dimensions. TARGA supports rasters with a Red8, a Green8, and a Blue8 band, or a single Grey8 band (and optional alpha). (FME also supports 16-bit versions, although they are not explicitly mentioned in the TGA 2.0 standard.)
TARGA also supports rasters with a single UInt8 or UInt16 band that has an RGB24 or RGBA32 palette.