Subject: Image type conversion

From: [email-masked] (Dan Fox)
Date: 7 Jul 1993 13:26:31 -0500

On the question of converting to and from HDF, GIF, and so on, the best
set of image conversion tools I've ever used is available from the San
Diego Super Computer Center.  (anon ftp to ftp.sdsc.edu)   

The only problem is that (unless they've changed their policy), the
actual _libraries_ of all the routines are not distributed in source
code form.  If the package wasn't so damned _good_, I wouldn't
recommend it for that reason alone...

The image types supported in the version we have here are (taken from
the "imconv" man page):

 imconv supports the following image file formats:

        Format Names
 Primary   Others              Description
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 bmp       -                   Microsoft Windows BitMaP file
 cur       -                   Microsoft Windows CURsor file
 eps       epi, epsf, epsi     Adobe Encapsulated Postscript file
 gif       giff                CompuServe Graphics Image Format File
 hdf       df, ncsa            Hierarchical Data Format file
 ico       -                   Microsoft Windows ICOn file
 icon      cursor, pr          Sun Icon and Cursor file
 iff       vff, suniff, taac   Sun TAAC Image File Format
 mpnt      macp, pntg          Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
 pbm       -                   Portable Bit Map file
 pcx       pcc                 ZSoft PC Paintbrush file
 pgm       -                   Portable Grayscale Map file
 pic       picio, pixar        PIXAR PICture file
 pict      pict2               Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT picture file
 pix       alias               Alias PIXel image file
 pnm       -                   Portable aNy Map file
 ppm       -                   Portable Pixel Map file
 ps        postscript          PostScript image file
 ras       sun, sr, scr        Sun RASterfile
 rgb       iris, sgi           Silicon Graphics RGB image file
 rla       rlb                 Wavefront raster image file
 rle       -                   Utah Run-Length-Encoded image file
 rpbm      -                   Raw Portable Bit Map file
 rpgm      -                   Raw Portable Grayscale Map file
 rpnm      -                   Raw Portable aNy Map file
 rppm      -                   Raw Portable Pixel Map file
 synu      -                   Synu image file
 tga       vda, ivb            Truevision Targa image file
 tiff      tif                 Tagged Image File
 viff      xv                  Khoros's Virtual Image File Format
 x         avs                 AVS X image file
 xbm       bm                  X11 Bit Map file
 xwd       x11                 X11 Window Dump image file