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From: wugate!wubios.WUstl.EDU!david@uunet.uu.net (David J. Camp)
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Subject: Re: TIFF or PICT -> RASTER
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Date: 8 Nov 89 01:45:36 GMT
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In article <2694@brazos.Rice.edu> neil@stl.stc.co.uk (Neil Todd) writes:
|| 
|| I have a picture in compressed TIFF format and also in Macintosh PICT
|| format. And I want to transfer it into sun raster format. Does anyone know
|| of any program that can transfer one of the two format into raster format?
|
|Here is the README from the Portable Bitmap Toolkit, there is a contact
|address at the end. Rather than have O(n^2) filters for n different formats
|a common intermediate format (PBM) and hence you end up with O(n) filters

I have a little experience with pbm, and it does what it advertises, but
I think one should point out that it only works with black and white
images, with one level of gray.  -David-

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