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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
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Subject: Re: IFF converters?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 20:20:00 GMT
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much of the PBMplus package has been uploaded to atari.archive.
look in ~/atari/printing/pbm, i believe. odds are there is an IFF
component. check the manpages. with PBM you can convert (and
manipulate) between just about most all popular graphic formats, color,
grayscale, and bitmap (mono). i have not tried it on the ST,
but always had good luck when i had access to a sun. warning: it
is HUGE. i know there are spc components as well as pi1, pi3, and
gif. the manpage archive is only 50k or so. get that first.

wait, i just checked...PBMplus has an IFF ILBM to pbm converter.
from pbm you can go to GIF, PI1, SPC, etc. only problem is the atari
port does not include ilbmtopbm. still, you can get the source
for PBM at your nearest comp.sources.unix archive and port it yourself.
best bet would be using gcc with 32-bit ints for easiest port.

hope this helps...

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com
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