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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PixMaps, etc.
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Date: 1 Sep 89 21:24:30 GMT
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In article <XMJSCHM.89Sep1154408@mbcrrb.harvard.edu>, xmjschm@mbcrrb.harvard.edu (Mike Schmelzer) writes:
>    All I know about PixMaps is that they're like bitmaps, only with more layers,
> and that a color map (or maps) is involved somehow. 

X pixmaps are implementation dependent server data structures.  There
is no support for writing/reading these to/from files.  There are
several X programs that allow writing/reading color images.  These
include xgif, xim, and xwd/xwud.  All have different file formats.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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