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From: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.graphics,comp.graphics
Subject: getting TIFF files in and out of PBMPLUS
Keywords: TIFF PBMPLUS
Message-ID: <708@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Nov 90 10:42:46 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England
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Can anyone give me pointers to getting TIFF files in and out of PBMPLUS?

I have recently built TIFF Software "Release" 2.2, xtiff (PATCHLEVEL 3) 
and PBMPLUS (Distribution of 22nov89) on our Sequent Symmetry running 
DYNIX(R) V3.0.15. These all work very well and I can input images from
a HP "scanjet" running HP "Scangal" software.

However I can't get the TIFF files into PBMPLUS directly via tifftopgm
since it blows up on all my images. So I have to use tif2ras and ras2tif,
which are SunOS *specific*, to convert TIFF files to Sun rasterfiles that
PBMPLUS can deal with. Is there any alternative to this since I want
to have all the software running on the Sequent Symmetry and promote
the use of the TIFF standard for storing images, xtiff for display under
X Windows and PBMPLUS for image manipulation.

cheers,
gerry
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