jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) (11/08/90)
In article <16401@netcom.UUCP> barry@netcom.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes: >someone: the FBM utility, 'fbcat', can translate other picture formats >into IFF, but if the number of colors is too high, the results are not >generally useful. If, for example, you translate a 256-color GIF picture >to IFF with 'fbcat', you'll get an 8-plane IFF picture, and Amigas don't >have 8 bitplanes. Get Jef Poskanzer's pbmplus package. It's way cool. Do this (under unix): giftoppm foo.gif | ppmtoilbm > foo.ilbm Or this: ilbmtoppm foo.ilbm | ppmquant 256 | ppmscale -yscale 1.1 \ | ppmtogif > foo.gif There's also a 24bit iff filter recently written (distribute it *soon*, Jef) along with a half dozen other converters for just_about_any_format to/from ppm (portable pixel maps), pgm (port. grey map) or pbm (portible bit map). (Commercial over. :-) -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Manager - University of Houston Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 EastEnders list: eastender@karazm.math.uh.edu Skate UNIX(r)