Imaging Software Glossary: Terms & Concepts: M-N

The imaging software glossary provides definitions for document and web imaging, in addition to terminology specific to Snowbound Software’s imaging technology.

Managed Code	Code that is executed by a common language runtime environment rather than directly by the operating system. Managed code applications gain common language runtime services such as automatic garbage collection, runtime type checking and security support, and so on. These services provide uniform platform- and language-independent behavior of managed-code applications.

Memory Buffer	The memory buffer is a temporary space in memory for working storage.

Memory Pointer	The memory pointer is a variable that points to the location in memory of some data. This is also known as indirect addressing.

Merge	Merging is the process of taking two or more images and combining them into one.

Method	A method is a programmed procedure that is defined as part of a class and included in any object of that class. A class can have more than one method.

MSP	The Microsoft Paint program bitmap file format (MSP) supports 1-bit images (black and wh ite images). It uses a type of RLE compression found also in compressed .BMP files, therefore they can be converted to BMP file formats. MSP is used most often by Microsoft Windows applications, but may be used by MS-DOS-based programs as well.

Multipage Image	A multipage image is a graphic or picture that appears on screen that consists of more than one page.

Native File Format	The native file format is a file format specific to an application. Native files can typically be recognized only by the application that produced the file. For example, a PowerPoint file can usually be opened only in PowerPoint. Snowbound's VirtualViewer web viewers and RasterMaster Imaging SDKs support a wide variety of files in their native format including MS Word and Excel.

NCR	NCR is a simple header with CCITT group 4 data. It is a unique black and white image compression format.

Noise	Noise consists of dark spots that can appear when using a digital camera with bad lighting conditions, or when there is static build-up on the scanning array element in a high speed scanner.