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From: bobp@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (robert.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: .xpm format
Keywords: pixmaps, image formats
Message-ID: <3487@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 13:41:03 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I found some images stored in ~X11/include/pixmaps yesterday.
The storage scheme is really sweet-- "#include" format similar to
the output of bitmap(1), but there are additional statements to
map characters to colors. Then there is a character array which forms
the image.  The REALLY nice feature to this is that all the famous
grey-scale character posters can now be used, with a little bit of
editing, as color pixmaps.  Anyway, are there library functions that
can read and write these files.  I looked for some, but failed to find
any.  

Thanks for any help,
Rob Phillips
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201-522-6359