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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: This has got to be an easy one.  Adding a colormap?
Organization: CS
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:28:55 GMT


I have an image file, generated by a program that knows nothing about pbmplus.
I have a colormap file, which is of the form: 'color# Redval Grnval Bluval'
for 256 colors.  (Redval, Grnval and Bluval are integers between 0 and 255,
but of course, it'd be easy to convert to a float if that would help).

How do I take the image file, convert it to a GIF with the colormap applied?

The grey part isn't a problem, 'rawtopgm x y file | pnmtogif > outfile', but
how to get the map in there?  I don't want pbm messing with what it thinks
is black or white...

pgmtoppm looks like it would almost do the trick, but specifying the 
colorspec stuff doesn't look quite like it does what I want.

Alternatively, if you can tell me how to convert my above mentioned format
color map files into PPM files so that I can use the -map option to pgmtoppm, 
that would work as well.  At least, I think that would do what I want.

Any help much appreciated, I have a ton of these files I need to go through.

Back in the old days, the images were just loaded into the HP framebuffer, 
then a separate program loaded the colormap, now I want to dig out these
old images and re-display 'em.
-- 
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 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
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From: etxisac@osd.ericsson.se (Sven Isacson)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: xviewgl
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:44:55 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden

Hi net.
Has anyone hacked the xviewgl to make
it work on a monocrome screen ?
( I have V 1.1 )
and
Is it possible to view the images on a 
Codak photo CD on my sun CD player ?
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From: tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.binaries.pictures.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d,comp.compression,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
Summary: not quite as fast as a speeding bullet
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:06:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bzo4rJ.7yx.2
Followup-To: alt.graphics.pixutils
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

chinhsu@girtab.usc.edu (Chin-Chi Hsu) writes:
> 3. Super fast JPEG compression and decompression for GIFs.
>    REDUCE IMAGE FILES TO A FRACTION ONLY!!! SAVE YOURE DISK SPACE!!!

Before anyone gets too excited, it may be worth pointing out that as a JPEG
viewer this program is not exactly "super fast".  I clock it at about half
the speed of DVPEG, which itself is much slower than 386-specific programs
like Hiview.  And IMGFUN's picture quality is decidedly worse --- looks like
it uses a fixed colormap instead of a two-pass quantizer.

Possibly the other functions of the program may be of some use.

				regards, tom lane
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: agouldng@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Allan Goulding)
Subject: Scitex and/or DDES image formats
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:22:17 GMT


Well, I found the FAQ but, unfortunately, couldn't find the info I was
looking for. So, I'll direct my plea to the net. Does anyone have any
information on the (i) Scitex CT2T or (ii) .DDES (an ANSI standard?)
image formats? I'd like to get some documentation on the file formats or
even some source code to read or write these images. Any help you could
provide will be most appreciated. 

Allan Goulding
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: scornd7@solomon.technet.sg (Tang Chang Thai)
Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:31:30 GMT

: Before anyone gets too excited, it may be worth pointing out that as a JPEG
: viewer this program is not exactly "super fast".  I clock it at about half
: the speed of DVPEG, which itself is much slower than 386-specific programs
: like Hiview.  And IMGFUN's picture quality is decidedly worse --- looks like
: it uses a fixed colormap instead of a two-pass quantizer.

I don't know what's wrong.  I've Hiview running fine to view some JPG files
on a 386 with a ET4000 video card, but ImgFun is no go.  It works okay for
GIF files though.  Wonder why?  *blink*
From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Lacking FAQ, I ask the obvious ... Bitmap Editor?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:41:42 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I'm interested in information on EVERY color bitmap editing program
that is available for UNIX computers, and specifically SUN's with the
*twm and/or *mwm window managers.

I was delighted to hear that CorelDRAW has been ported over to most
UNIX platforms, but the faxback sheets I got from their automated
1-800 service seems to indicate that the bitmap editor (which is on
both the Windoze and Windoze CD-ROM versions) is *NOT* present in the
UNIX version.  Now, with the entire package costing almost six hundred
US$ (the educational discount is $300, which makes the price much more
paletable!), I can't believe they didn't take the time to port over
the bitmap editor.

The CS department at my University has Island Paint, which I am not
impressed with.  I have only been able to use it on monochrome X
displays, but the tools just don't seem very powerful to me.

The issue of editing these bitmaps is very important to me, but the
wares themselves must be the "Stealth Application"(tm) of UNIX.
Please email me any and all information on PD, Shareware, or
commercial bitmap editing software for the SUN SPARCstation line.
Please, I'm not interested in anything that requires OPEN LOOK.

Stratocaster
(a proud FUTURE owner of a SPARCstation if he can find this damn software)


-- 
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From: csroc@cvbnet.prime.com (cvbnet)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Zip and Zoo on Unix
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:44:07 GMT

I've successfully gotten programs to display
gif and jpeg, and ppm files on my Sparcstaion2/Openwindows system.

I was wondering  about gl files and unzip and zoo files.
Do these have any application under unix and if yes, where
is the s/w for zoo and zip and gl animation.  I looked all
through the FAQ and if the data is there I missed it.

Anyone feeling like helping in the Holiday spirit?
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.graphics
From: zzang@stat.ufl.edu (zzang)
Subject: Info wanted:bitmap editor for PC
Originator: zzang@manta
Organization: University of Florida
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 05:35:47 GMT

Hello,
do we have bitmap editor, bmtoa, atobm for PC?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Zhuo Zang[~{j0WA~}]
Department of Statistics
University of Florida            Email: zzang@stat.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.binaries.pictures.d
From: loureiro@fiu.edu
Subject: Re: dcview20.zip -- ColorView for DOS JPEG Viewer posted
Organization: Florida International University.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 08:17:19 GMT
Originator: loureiro@serss0
Keywords: jpeg jfif gif bmp viewer converter


Hi,

   I've downloaded dcview20 to my microcomputer, and I've some questions
about it:

   1. I'd already tested the previous version of dcview (both for dos and
      windows), and stoped using it shortly after, due to the fact that 
      both versions didn't load 24-bit BMPs correctly (the colors get
      mixed, and the pic is distorted as if the program interpreted it's
      width and/or height incorrectly). About that, I tried converting the
      BMP files to diferent file-formats. When fed with old-style BMPs
      (COREHEADERS) dcview doesn't even recognize that it doesn't support
      this format. Using OS2 formats doesn't work either. It's worth to say
      that PaintBrush, Borland's Resource Workshop, and many other programs
      do read those 24-bits standard format bitmaps. I tried this new
      version of dcview on the BMPs and once again it failed.

   2. I have a SVGA board (with VESA compatible BIOS) capable of managing
      800x600 hi-color (15 or 16 bits of color per pixel) and 600x480
      true color (24 bits/pixel). Well, in the last version of dcview, I 
      recall it didn't have any problems using these extended resolution
      modes, but this new version doesn't display correctly on either (menus
      and mouse bitmap included). The board is from STB and uses Cirrus-Logic 
      components. The VESA driver suplied for Cirrus is and old version, that
      doesn't even recognizes the components on the board (this is a minor
      issue, since most of the time I'm working inside of Windows).

   Despite those problems, I find that this version of dcview has some very
interesting features (such as editing/merging and many more), and I wish the
next one solves the above mentioned backdraws.
   
   Well, If I'm wrong about anything I said, receiving some tips wold be
greatly appreciated. 

             Thank you,

                         Leo (Leonardo Loureiro - loureiro@fiu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi)
Subject: TIFFGetFileSize code, anyone?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:55:40 GMT


I am in the process of compiling the TIFF tool box by Sam Leffler from
Berkeley with Borland C++ compiler.

There are many minor problems that appear as warnings.  However, there is
one problem that I am really stuck.  Where can I get the code for the
TIFFGetFIleSize function?

Thank you in advance.

James Choi
From: cfoley@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Ciaran Foley)
Subject: Hi there...I need an Mpeg viewer...
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:07:17 GMT

does anyone have one they can Email to me? I have no FTP access..
I'd appreciate it very much,

Thanks!
Ciaran
From: Mike J. Brown <mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: TIFF to JPEG converter for Mac?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:28:01 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

Is there a program for the Mac which will convert TIFFs to JPEGs?

Humbly,
Mike

                                                            Mike Brown
_  _ _____________________________________I think, therefore I ambient
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 09:09:21 GMT

Is there anything faster than Jview?  I saw it described as the
fastest but it still seems kinda slow when loading up images...

Mike
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: bwj@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bobby Johnson)
Subject: Giff to Tiff
Organization: Harris Controls Division
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:21:08 GMT

I'm looking for a .gif to .tif conversion program.  Really, all I need is the
source.

Archie came up with a blank, anybody have any suggestions?

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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: dcview20.zip -- ColorView for DOS JPEG Viewer posted
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:21:12 GMT

hee@cs.columbia.edu (Edward Hee) writes:
: 
: The latest version of ColorView for DOS, version 2.0, a fast JPEG/JFIF,
: GIF, Windows BMP viewer/converter/editor has been posted as dcview20.zip
: on alt.binaries.pictures.utilities.  VESA graphics drivers for
: ColorView for DOS have also been posted as vesadriv.zip on the same
: group.

Could someone please post this to this group?  Some of us don't get this
group.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
From: jorgand@sumax.seattleu.edu (Dave Jorgan)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: QuickTime viewer for MS-DOS/Windows
Date: 21 Dec 1992 00:06:13 -0800
Organization: Seattle University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sumax.seattleu.edu

	Is there a PC-based viewer for QuickTime format animations?
Windows, MS-DOS, it doesn't matter, if it will make viewing Quick Time
animations possible on a PC. I am not familiar with the QT format or its
history, I don't know if it is proprietary or anything. Any software, be it
free/share/payware, is OK, let me know (but please not "get a Mac Emulator"
or "get a Mac.") Thanks in advance,


Dave Jorgan
jorgand@sumax.seattleu.edu
From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: pbmplus (merged) on SGI
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:36:33 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

In article <1992Dec23.172540.23@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au>,
visser@n6batws1.itwol.bhp.com.au (Martin Visser) writes:
|>
|> I've been using pbmplus tools very sucessfuly for quite a while. However
|> I 
|> thought it was about time that investigate problems I have making the
|> pxmmerge
|> programs. It appears that the Pbmplus.tmpl expects to have macros for
|> ObjectCompile and LinkFile defined in the ( I guess ) .cf files of
|> imake. It
|> does not appear to be the case for Silicon Graphics Irix 4.0.1.
|> 
|> Does anyone know where the definitions of these macros should be or
|> what they are??

The missing Imake rules are new with X11R5 and are therefore not available
in outdated X11 releases. To overcome this append the following to your
Pbmplus.tmpl:


/* The following definitions are new in X11R5 and provided here for X11R4
   users. They should go away some day.
*/

/* if [ -d ] or [ ! -d ] causes make to fail, define this as - */
#ifndef DirFailPrefix
#define DirFailPrefix
#endif

#ifndef MakeDir
#define MakeDir(dir) DirFailPrefix@if [ -d dir ]; then set +x; \	@@\
		else (set -x; $(MKDIRHIER) dir); fi
#endif

/*
 * LinkFile - link a file
 */
#ifndef LinkFile
#define LinkFile(tofile,fromfile)					@@\
tofile:: fromfile							@@\
	$(RM) $@							@@\
	$(LN) $? $@
#endif

/*
 * ObjectCompile - compile fragment for a normal object file
 */
#ifndef ObjectCompile
#define ObjectCompile(options) $(RM) $@					@@\
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) options $*.c
#endif


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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: jimt@carson.u.washington.edu (James Thompson)
Subject: Re: GIF questions
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:14:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.032056.21576@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:
>
>I have a second question as well.  When I download some GIFs to my PC,
>they end up not being able to be read in correctly (using Fractint or
>a regular GIF viewer), resulting in a very skinny squashed version of
>the image at the top, a slightly less squashed version of it just below
>that, a slightly less squashed version below that, and so on for a total
>of about 5 squashed versions of the picture.  The only way I have found
>to correct this is to use the JPEG group's software to convert the GIF
>to a JPEG and then convert the JPEG back to a GIF, resulting in some
>quality reduction and a larger file, but at least it works.  What causes
>this problem and how can I fix it?
>
>Mike

These GIF files are in the "Interlaced" format, which was included in the
original GIF spec so that on the slow machines of the era, a viewer could
display first every eighth line of the picture, then fill in the blanks at
increasing resolution until the whole image was displayed.  The idea is that
the user can get an idea of what the picture looks like before the whole thing
is displayed.  Many older GIF files were done in this format.  Some programs
that read GIF files (e.g., ColoRIX) ignore this mode, resulting in the sort
of hash you describe, but most viewers (such as VPIC) and decent conversion
programs (such as the JPEG converters) handle them properly.

Jim

Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: "david anjo" <david.anjo@canrem.com>
Subject: one step dxfing
Reply-To: "david anjo" <david.anjo@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:20:39 EST

Hello to all the IBM platform based raytracers out there...

I've recently decided to get a little more ambitious with my raytracing 
endeavours. I'm talking about creation of DXF's (via DesignCAD 3D) and 
their incorporation into filename.POV's. This is due in part to the 
VENUS.POV/INC I got from The Graphics Alternative BBS and several DXF 
sample files from ExecPC.

I have DXF2RAW, Sandpaper v.3 and, of course, DAT2POV. Although they do 
work, I find the tedious editing to be a major pain.

 Anyone aware of a "one step" process from DXF to POV ?

 I've sent my registration money for PV3D (which is got to be the major 
suprise of the last month) and have been playing with Shawn Britton's 
WINTrace (rough demo... lots of promise). Are there any other modelers out 
there (save 3DS) that I should be taking a look at ?

Any assistance, comments, advice, etc. will be most gratefully received.

Thanks, in advance...

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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: hardiman@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Paul Hardiman)
Subject: SunRaster / Tiff to Pict conv
Organization: Boeing
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:36:20 GMT


Interested in knowing if anybody has had any success
converting either Sun Raster or Tiff images to Apple Pict
format (possibly PBMPLUS)?

Please advise via email

Thanks

-- 
Ciao 4 Now ---
  Paul Hardiman  (206) 728-8843  hardiman@bcstec.boeing.com
From: gokul@gokul.uucp (gokul)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: color distortion at higher DPI with ghostscript
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:13:51 GMT
Reply-To: gokul@gokul.uucp (gokul)
Organization: Intel Corp


 at 288 dpi using the following command
                 
                #gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=tmp -r288 psfile

 the colors are getting distorted i.e gray becomes white and other colors become lighter.


 appreciate any help to solve this problem.

 please respond to the following address 
 ------------------------------------------------------------
                               gokul@littlei.intel.com
                            tel no : (503) 696--2468
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
Subject: Re: Job paperwork stuff
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
    <LZ23VB1w164w@csiatl.Gwinnett.COM>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:00:47 GMT

In article <LZ23VB1w164w@csiatl.Gwinnett.COM>, olga@csiatl.Gwinnett.COM (olga from the volga) writes:
>Sorry you had such a bad day.  A few explanations are in order. 
>They wanted your social security card not to find out whether or not 
>you are a good citizen or not, they needed it for immigration law 

Actually, they may have wanted it for the (only?) legitimate use of your SSN
-- Social Security (FICA) taxes.

Keith Lewis             klewis@mitre.org          "Mr. Cheap"
I don't dance to music; music dances to me.  Email me for my PGP key.
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.
From: kaplan@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu (Peter Kaplan -Yodh)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Another step for the US national ID number
Summary: Passports
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:58:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.privacy
Organization: Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania

From today's (12/30) Wall Street Journal Tax Report column:

WANT A PASSPORT?  Be ready to put your Social Security number and
any foreign home address on the application to help the IRS collect
taxe from Americans living abroad.  Persons refusing to comply
will be reported to the IRS.  Similar rules apply to alien applicants
for US residence.


This is a happy new year wish to everyone,

from your brother, who is growing bigger every day.


--Peter (kaplan@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu) [I'm not your brother :-)]
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: drug dealers on the h
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:36:09 GMT

In article <Dec.18.10.37.54.1992.25185@romulus.rutgers.edu> vanembur@romulus.rutgers.edu (Bill Van Emburg) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.152246.11453@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner) writes:

>      (Someone else writes:)
>> >T(> >         Name one country where cocaine is legal.	
>> 				      ^^^^^^^
>> 	Bolivia and Peru.  In both countries coca leaf tea (mate de coca) is 
>> 	not only legal but considered a healthful drink.  It is made from 
>> 	the same coca leaves that are used to make coca paste and contains 
>> 	small amounts of cocaine.  By the way, both Dan Quayle and Pope Paul
>> 	would have flunked piss tests after visiting Bolivia.  They both
>> 	were offered and drank mate de coca while visiting.  

>While I *hate* to defend Dan Quayle on *anything*, we really should
>try to be fair.  Perhaps this tea *does* contain trace amounts of
>cocaine or the substances from which cocaine is derived.  But really,
>can you equate this with snorting some fine white powder?  Do you
>really think the effect is anywhere near as strong??

What difference does that make?  Try selling coca leaves in this country
for chewing purposes, and see if the DEA makes this distinction while they're
seizing your house, your car, probably your children, and throwing you
in jail for longer than they lock up murderers for.

-- 
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niepornt@phoenix.    | Probably, but that never stopped me before.
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