Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!huxley!glenn From: glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: calvin and hobbes bitmaps Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 17:19:25 GMT References: <1990Nov30.135029.18685@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: glenn@huxley.UUCP Reply-To: (Glenn Parker) Distribution: alt Organization: Bitstream, Inc. Lines: 27 In-reply-to: jhl@frith.msu.edu's message of 30 Nov 90 13:50:29 GMT In article <1990Nov30.135029.18685@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, jhl@frith.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes: > Thanks for the Calvin and Hobbes bitmaps. However, it would nice if the > poster told us who to view or use them. NOTE: I was not the poster, but I can help out here. All the Calvin & Hobbes images were in X Bitmap format, which is a marvelously inefficient format (at least they were compressed :-). This format is recognized by the programs xloadimage and xv, and the PBM library. File in this format are also C include files, and can be included in C programs that communicate with X servers (or other appropriate graphics devices). All images were bitmaps (B/W), some used 4x4 dithering. Several of the files contained mail header information that had to be stripped out. The hobbes cursor file contained two files, and had to be split, but it was all pretty obvious (a plain text editor was sufficient for this work). Cheers, -Glenn- -- Glenn P. Parker glenn@bitstream.com Bitstream, Inc. uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street BIX: parker Cambridge, MA 02142-1270