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From: sow@eru.uucp (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Upgrade PBM to PGM or PPM: opinions wanted.
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Date: 30 Jun 88 08:43:05 GMT
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In article <6377@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
|I'm thinking about upgrading my portable bitmap toolkit so that it has
|additional tools for handling grayscale pixmaps (graymaps) as well.
|As I see it, the new toolkit will include:

| - DO I NEED TO DO THIS?  There must be tools already out there that
|   do stuff like this.

Your right, it exists a good tool for this. 

I suggest that you take a close look on "The IM Raster Toolkit" from
University of Waterloo, written by A. W. Paeth.


Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
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