An ImgReader behaves as an ImgData object. Whenever image data is requested through the getInternCompData() or getCompData() methods, the image data will be read (if it is not buffered) and returned. Implementing classes should not buffer large amounts of data, so as to reduce memory usage.

This class sets the image origin to (0,0). All default implementations of the methods assume this.

This class provides default implementations of many methods. These default implementations assume that there is no tiling (i.e., the only tile is the entire image), that the image origin is (0,0) in the canvas system and that there is no component subsampling (all components are the same size), but they can be overloaded by the implementating class if need be.