brianc@ZETA.SAINTJOE.EDU ("Brian Capouch/Fhrdfg:8:8") (10/25/89)
I hope I'm not beating a dead horse here, but I need to get a better feel than I have for graphic movement between the Macs and X. I have a mono Sun 3/150, providing clients for my Visual X-19 station. What types of things can I move between the two systems? I have gotten xbitmap from sumex; it's fine once you've tweaked the graphic to even proportions, but the source wasn't there with it to implement the fix I've seen earlier here. The other programs I've found seem only to work on color displays. Is this true? What things are there that might allow me to scan an image on the mac and move the scanned image over? If this is old stuff, please reply by email. Thanks Brian Capouch Saint Joseph's College brianc@saintjoe.edu
madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (11/12/89)
brianc@ZETA.SAINTJOE.EDU ("Brian Capouch/Fhrdfg:8:8") writes: >I have gotten xbitmap from >sumex; [...] >The other programs I've found seem only to work on color displays. Is this >true? What things are there that might allow me to scan an image on the mac >and move the scanned image over? Well, I wrote a program called xloadimage which can display multiple image types on an X11 display. Currently it handles Sun Rasterfile (both color and monochrome in both standard and rl-encoded formats), Faces Project images, X10 bitmap, X11 bitmap, and PBM (both normal and compact) images. It does not support mac images (yet) but the PBM utilities do; you can convert the mac to PBM images and display them with my utility. I would like to add the ability to display Mac images. If someone could send me Mac image formats I would be much obliged. Come to think of it, any image formats would be appreciated. As for color versus monochrome display, I have full support for StaticGray, StaticColor, GrayScale, and PseudoColor visuals. These visuals support most displays out there today. I support halftone dithering to display color images on monochrome displays (automatically or explicitly) and color depth-reduction to support n bit images on n-k bit displays. I also support image zooming, brightening/darkening, clipping, merging, and some other capabilities. This utility will be submitted for X11R4 but should be going out on comp.sources.x in the near future. If you have an immediate need I'll be happy to e-mail you a copy. Otherwise please watch for it on comp.sources.x and send me any enhancement requests or code. Happy hacking, jim frost software tool & die "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s madd@std.com +1 617-739-WRLD 24hrs {3,12,24}00bps