jap7g@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jim A. Pisano) (06/20/89)
I am trying to convert .PCX (PC Paintbrush) images to .GIF images so that I can display the same image on different monitors, something that brain-dead Paintbrush can't seem to do :^(. Alas, cvtgif doesn't work - I get the following message when I run cvtgif: IMAGE.PCX Loading...External Memory allocation overflow, 1016K requested, 289K free I've tried this on 2 computers 1 with 1.5MB of extended memory and the other with ~ 4MB of extended memory. I tried using the program with my memory configured as both extended AND expanded (LIM 4.0 & LIM 3.2) memory, but to no avail. I also tried to images.pcx; one was ~500K and the other was about 300K - both files requested the same amount of RAM (1016K) which seems pretty extreme. Do I need a EMS board that uses bank switching hardware or should I run straight extended? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. -Jim ______________________________________________________________________________ | Jim Pisano jap7g@virginia.edu | | Department of Psychology uunet!virginia!jap7g | | 102 Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 | |____________________________________________________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________________ | Jim Pisano jap7g@virginia.edu | | Department of Psychology uunet!virginia!jap7g | | 102 Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 |
keil@apollo.COM (Mark Keil) (06/21/89)
In article <2680@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> jap7g@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jim A. Pisano) writes: >I am trying to convert .PCX (PC Paintbrush) images to .GIF images so < other stuff deleted > Jim, use the FBM package. I think that the FBM pipe should look like: fbsample -n2 -g1 <file.pcx | fbnorm | gray2clr -G >file.gif (play with values of -n , try 1 2 3 4 ) The FBM package was posted on comp.sources.unix about two weeks ago. I heartily recommend the FBM package, It very works well for me. I also recommend the PBM package which (I beleive) was posted to comp.sources.unix a while back. I beleive that you can also FTP the PBM package from expo.lcs.mit.edu along with the Poskanzer bitmap collection (which I also recommend). Thanks go to Michael Mauldin (FBM) & Jef Poskanzer (PBM) for these much needed packages! I would also recommend that anybody considering format conversion check out these packages. The PBM package is a good base for monochrome conversion. The FBM package is an EXCELLENT base for color format conversion. It is fairly easy to add new formats. I have written several programs to work with the FBM package, and it aas very straightforward. -Mark keil@apollo.com -- Mark Keil Apollo Computer, Chelmsford MA 01824 +1 508-256-6600 x2495 keil@apollo.com / {decvax,mit-erl,yale}!apollo!keil
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (06/22/89)
In article <43f4c658.1ecf9@apollo.COM> keil@apollo.COM (Mark Keil) writes: > The FBM package was posted on comp.sources.unix about two weeks ago. > I heartily recommend the FBM package, It very works well for me. > I also recommend the PBM package which (I beleive) was posted to > comp.sources.unix > Thanks go to Michael Mauldin (FBM) & Jef Poskanzer (PBM) for these much > needed packages! Has anyone gotten FBM to work on an Amiga? If so could they send me the executable and docs? I have no ftp access, so I have to rely on the goodness of someone out there to help me through Email. modified Amiga source code would be a nice extra, too. Thanks -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Roger.Hausmann@f270.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Roger Hausmann) (06/26/89)
Jim, this might not be t h e answer to your problem, but you can convert pcx to gif with a screen capturing utility (SCR2GIF) which was written by Bill Fleisher and is on many BBS's. I do this all the time, and even though this is a TSR program, I've never had any problems converting to GIF this way...