irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') (11/25/89)
Today I finished a new version of the pbmtogo (portable bitmap to GraphOn graphics) routine and sent it off to Jef Poskanzer (pokey@well.sf.ca.us) for inclusion in his pbmplus bitmap manipulation package. This new version of pbmtogo is utilizing the GraphOn 2D compression scheme so that dumping an X Window, say, to a GraphOn is now much faster than for the old version I wrote about a year ago. The 2D-compressed files are sometimes 15 times smaller than a raw GraphOn format file for the same X Window dump. The package that Jef has just submitted to the comp.sources.misc moderator still contains the old pbmtogo (uncompressed mode) routine. If you are interested in testing/improving the new pbmtogo, drop me an e-mail at bt@irfu.se. So far I have tested it extensively on an HP9000/370 (HP-UX 6.5). ^ Bo Thide'-------------------------------------------------------------- | | Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden |I| [In Swedish: Institutet f|r RymdFysik, Uppsalaavdelningen (IRFU)] |R| Phone: (+46) 18-403000. Telex: 76036 (IRFUPP S). Fax: (+46) 18-403100 /|F|\ INTERNET: bt@irfu.se UUCP: ...!uunet!sunic!irfu!bt ~~U~~ -----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw