[comp.windows.x] Looking for document about X bitmap file format

qwang@hawk.ulowell.edu (Charles Q Wang) (07/08/89)

Hi,
	does anyone out there know where to find any document which gives
detail of X bitmap file format, i.e., how the color map is given, how 
each pixel is assigned to the color, etc. 

	Actually I am working on converting a set of gif format image files
to XBM files. If someone knows there is such a utility already there, please
let me know.

	Thanka a lot.

Charles Wang

bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (07/08/89)

In article <14086@swan.ulowell.edu> qwang@hawk.ulowell.edu (Charles Q Wang) writes:
   does anyone out there know where to find any document which gives
   detail of X bitmap file format

How about in the bitmap(1) manual page?

   I am working on converting a set of gif format image files to XBM
   files. If someone knows there is such a utility already there,
   please let me know.

How about Jef Poskanzer's Portable BitMap (pbm) stuff, available from
expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/pbm.tar.Z?