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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Convert facesaver format to 64x64 tiff for NeXTMail?
Message-ID: <1810@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 91 07:13:58 GMT
References: <4179@nosc.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <4179@nosc.NOSC.MIL> ron@nosc.NOSC.MIL (Ron Broersma) writes:
>Does anyone have a good procedure for converting facesaver format to
>a 64x64 tiff image that works with NeXTMail?  The pbmplus toolkit can
>convert facesaver to eps and I've played with the icon application to scale
>and cut faces to 64x64 but it is a painful process.  Does anyone have anything
>better?

These have a 3:4 aspect ratio and most are 9:8 anamorphic.
Since their data is compatible with PostScript's readhexstring
and image operators, it's trivial to turn them into EPS, even by
hand.  TIFF is practical too (it wasn't in pre-2.0).

>Too bad NeXTMail isn't directly compatible with a faceserver or with
>facesaver format.  Didn't anyone at NeXT think about this existing
>standard before choosing the 64x64 tiff format?

TIFF isn't the problem.  The problem is that most FS images can't
be made to look good on-screen no matter what you do to them.
(Of course, I've seen a lot of horrible "native" 64x64 images as
well...)

I suppose a "neat hack" would be an autonfsmount-style virtual
file system that could sit on /LocalLibrary/Images/People and
provide .tiff images on the fly.  :-)

					-=EPS=-