beo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (BeO de PeO) (09/12/89)
Hello world, with as many graphic standards as there are people. Please study the sentence above. Is this true ? Is there someone around who can tell me what formats are around, and more specific, what formats are available (convertable) to show on the amiga, with what program's. Oh, I know about ILBM && ACBM IFF, but i've heard the names GIF,PICT,TIFF, (E)PS (which i knew only from macintosh) an had seen the names neptune and many others. If there is enough response i will try to compile all the data, and will put it down the net. I'm not interested in background information about the formats, but just 'technical' details. Greetings: -- ___ ___ ________________________________ / \ / \ / \ | | | | Beware, everything you type can, | | O | O | | and will be used against you ! | \___/ \___/ \________________________________/ | \ +------------------------------+ | \ | Jan van Veen, | | _____\ | beo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl | | | | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | | | +------------------------------+
BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Bin) (11/13/89)
I recently posted an inquiry regarding the availability of a program
that would convert from TIFF to SUN to IFF! Well I was directed towards
a program called FBM!
Enuff to say that it not only did it do what I needed (TIFF -> IFF) but
it had a whole variety of options.
It's available thru anonymous ftp at
nl.cs.cmu.edu in /usr/mlm/ftp
128.2.222.56
Well, here's the README file that comes with the program:
This directory contains the Beta test release (version 0.9) of the
Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation (FBM) library of programs. This collection
(in combination with Jef Poskanzer's PBM collection) provides a
complete package for manipulating and converting color and black and
whites images, including 24bit RGB, 8bit mapped color, 8bit grayscale,
and 1bit bitmapped images.
Compilation
Unpack all files in one directory. Edit Makefile and put in
appropriate values for defaults.
If you wish to have the tiff2fbm program, first obtain, unpack,
and compile libtiff.a, and then modify FBM 's Makefile to
include this library. Then type "make tiff".
If you have the Utah Raster Toolkit, the 'fbcat' program
can be compiled with the -DRLE flag to include support
for RLE files. Credit to Paul Milazzo <milazzo@pearl.bbn.com>.
File Formats
FBM (-F)
FBM file with 256 byte header (with title & credits)
Sun (-S)
Sun rasterfile with 32 byte header
PBM (-P)
Poskanzer format for 1bit files
GIF (-G)
CompuServe GIF format
RLE (-R)
Utah RLE format
IFF (-I)
Amiga IFF files (except HAM mode files)
PCX (-Z)
PC PaintBrush format for IBM
Face (-B)
Bennet Yee's 1bit files, used at CMU
All programs (except fbinfo) can read any of the formats, and use
the magic number to decide the file type. If the input is not a
pipe and is compressed using the net standard 'compress' program,
the file will be uncompressed as it is read. Note however that
the operation to be performed must make sense; that is you cannot
halftone a color image, quantize a grayscale image, or resize a
1bit file.
Files and Programs:
README
This file
README.lib
Lists the subroutines in libfbm.a
Makefile
Make utility configuration file
fbm.1
General manual entry
*.1
Individual manual entries
fbm.h
Defines FBM data structures
clr2gray Convert color to grayscale
fbcat
Copy image (used for format conversion)
fbclean
Flip isolated pixels (clean image)
fbedge
Compute derivative image (edge detection)
fbext
Extract region, resize, change aspect ratio
fbhalf
Halftone grayscale image (Blue noise, Floyd-Steinberg, etc)
fbham
Convert FBM 24bit RGB to Amiga HAM mode
fbhist
Compute histogram
fbinfo
Dump image header
fbm2pod
Convert grayscale image to Diablo graphics (!)
fbmask
Set region to gray value
fbnorm
Normalize image intensity / increase contrast
fbps
Convert to PostScript
fbquant
Color quantization (24 bit to 8..256 colors) Mod. Heckbert
fbrot
Rotate 90, 180, or 270 degrees
fbsample Sample a 1bit file to produce an 8bit file
fbsharp
Sharpen (edge enhancement) by digital Laplacian
gray2clr Add a "gray" colormap to a grayscale image
idiff
(and udiff) convert raw byte stream into byte difference
pbm2ps
Convert PBM file to PostScript
pbmtitle Add a title to a PBM file
raw2fbm
Convert raw file to FBM format (eg: Amiga Digiview files)
tiff2fbm Convert tiff file to FBM format
uunet2fbm Convert UseNet Facesaver file to FBM format
Extensions
Several file extension conventions are used, but none are enforced
.Z
Compressed file, appended to other extensions
.fbm
Standard extension for FBM format files
.cbm
Sometimes used to mean a 24bit color FBM file
.ip
8bit grayscale Amiga file (with 1.2 aspect ratio)
.cp
24bit color Amiga file (with 1.2 aspect ratio)
.1bit
Sun 1bit rastefile
.clr
Sometimes used to mean a 8bit mapped color Sun file
.bm
Bennet Yee's "Face" format (1bit)
.pbm
Poskanzer 1bit format
.gif
Compuserve GIF format
.pcx
ZSoft's PCPaintbrush format
Example Unix pipelines to view files:
Starting with an 8 bit raw Amiga grayscale file, foo.ip, first
create an FBM format file with a title and credit, then process
that file for viewing on a Sun screen by normalizing, rotating,
resizing, sharpening, and halftoning.
% raw2fbm -d1 -a1.2 -w640 -h400
-t'Random Title' -c'Random Credit' < foo.ip > foo.fbm
% fbinfo foo.fbm
foo.fbm
"Random Title"
[ Random Credit ]
[640x400x8] 8 physbits 1.2 aspect ratio
row length 640, plane length 256000, colormap length 0
% fbnorm < foo.fbm |
(normalize)
fbrot |
(rotate 90 deg clockwise)
fbext -a1 -W900 -H768 |
(resize & make aspect ratio 1)
fbhalf -s10 -S > foo.1bit
(sharpen, halftone, write Sun)
Starting with a 24 bit color Amiga file, bar.cp, first create an
FBM format file with title and credit, then render that file for
viewing on a Sun by normalizing, rotating, sharpening, and
quantizing.
% raw2fbm -d3 -a1.2 -w640 -h400
-t'Random Color Title' -c'Random Color Credit' < bar.cp > bar.cbm
% fbinfo bar.cbm
bar.cbm
"Random Color Title"
[ Random Color Credit ]
[3x640x400x8] 8 physbits 1.2 aspect ratio
row length 640, plane length 256000, colormap length 0
% fbnorm < bar.cbm |
(normalize)
fbrot |
(rotate 90 deg clockwise)
fbext -a1 -W900 -H768 |
(resize & make aspect ratio 1)
fbsharp 3.0 |
(sharpen it)
fbquant -S > bar.clr
(quantize and write Sun)
(Note that sharpening is an integral option to the halftoning
program using the -s option, but that color images must currently
be sharpened using a separate program. Note also that more
sharpening is used on black and white images than on color images).
Notes on the 'fbext' program
Usage:
fbext [ -w<width> -h<height> -W<maxwdith> -H<maxheight>
-s<size> -a<aspect> -t'title' -c'credits' ]
[ x y [ width height ] ]
< foo.fbm > bar.fbm
fbext (bitmap extract) is a very useful anmd multipurpose program.
Its basic operation is to copy a rectangular portion of one image
(color or black and white) to a second image, possibly changing
either the width or height or both. It can also change the title
or credits fields of the image. Because it is so versatile, there
are a host of options:
-w<num> or -h<num>
Force width and/or height to a certain size
-W<num> or -H<num>
Limit width and height to a certain size
-a<num>
Force the output to have a given aspect ratio
-s<num>
Scale image to have no more than a given
number of pixels.
<x0> <y0> <width> <height> select a rectangular region of the image
to extract. The default is the entire image.
Note that the output size limits are cumulative. Thus if you set a
maximum width, height, and number of pixels, the image will be the
smallest of the three limits.
All in all, an amazing program.
Bin