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From: mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu (Michael L. Mauldin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: color GIF to TIFF converter wanted
Summary: color TIFF/GIF
Keywords: not pbmplus
Message-ID: <9829@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 90 18:25:58 GMT
References: <kusumoto.646931574@chsun1> <1990Jul5.145331.28086@cbnewsc.att.com>
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> In article <kusumoto.646931574@chsun1> kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu
> (Bob Kusumoto) writes:
> !out there that will convert color GIFs to TIFF or some other format. 

FBM 1.0 handles color GIF <-> TIFF.

    TIFF formats handled
	Input/	1,2,4,8, or 24 bit files, with or without colormap.
	Output	Colormaps are truncated from 3x16bits per color to
		3x8bits per color.

	Does not handle PLANAR_CONFIG_SEPARATE format RGB files, though.

    GIF formats handled
	all GIFs from 2 to 256 colors.

Machines

    Runs on most 32bit Unix boxes.  Vax, Sun, NeXT, IBM RT.

    Is known to have problems with the color quantization code
    (routine fbquant) on Cray XMP under UNICOS.

Availability

    Anonymous FTP, Use exactly these steps:
    
    % ftp nl.cs.cmu.edu		(or ftp 128.2.222.56)
    User: anonymous
    Password: your-name
    ftp> binary
    ftp> cd /usr/mlm/ftp
    ftp> get fbm.tar.Z
    ftp> get v2.2.tar.Z		(for Tiff support, from Sam Leffler)
    ftp> bye


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