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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for GIF to PS on UNIX
Keywords: GIF PS Unix
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Date: 23 Aug 89 12:39:08 GMT
References: <Aug.22.13.44.31.1989.13254@galaxy.rutgers.edu> <558@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <558@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>In article <Aug.22.13.44.31.1989.13254@galaxy.rutgers.edu> perez@andromeda (Willie Perez) writes:
>>I'm looking for a GIF to postscript converter on the Unix file system.
>>If anyone knows where I can get it or if you can mail me a copy I'd appreciate
>>it.
>
>PLEASE!!  If anyone knows about such a thing, POST the info!  There are plenty
>of people who are interested!  (Myself included, of course :-))

There are a couple of bitmap conversion packages available for Unix
systems that will do just what you want.  You should take a look at
"fbm" (Fuzzy's Bitmap Package) and "pbm" (Portable Bitmap Package);
both were posted to either comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc a
few months ago and should be available in the standard archive
locations.

The author of "fbm" is:

    Michael L. Mauldin (Fuzzy)              School of Computer Science
    ARPA: Michael.Mauldin@NL.CS.CMU.EDU     Carnegie Mellon University
    Phone: (412) 268-3065                   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890

According to the README file, you can also get "fbm" via FTP in the
following way:

    Anonymous FTP

    Host:       nl.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.222.56)
    User:       anonymous
    Password:   name@site
    Directory:  /usr/mlm/ftp/
    Filename:   fbm.tar.Z
    Transfer:   'image'

    Note: you must 'cd' to /usr/mlm/ftp directly, you cannot access
    either /usr, or /usr/mlm alone.  Don't forget to specify 'image'
    format transfer.

I don't know whether this information is still correct as I do not
have FTP access to try it out.

The author of "pbm" is:

    Jef Poskanzer
    jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov
    {ucbvax, lll-crg, sun!pacbell, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
	
I've had great success using both packages.  You should try to get
both, as they complement each other, although for your needs
(GIF->PS), "fbm" will do what you want all by itself.

From the "fbps" man page:

    To convert a color GIF file  to  a  3  inch  wide  grayscale
    postscript file for inclusion in a Scribe or TeX document:

        % clr2gray < foo.gif | fbps -s -w3.0 > foo.PS

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