barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (08/04/90)
I have a lot ( about 50 ) digitized images that I use as backgounds in X windows (via the ``xsetroot -bitmap'' command). Any idea how to convert them so that they can be used as NeXTStep backgrounds? (and, any idea how to convert the NeXT backgrounds (like the Eye) to X form?) Ideally, I'd like to have some analog of the xsetroot command, that would tile the NeXT background with the images, if they don't fill it completely. If I can get them converted and displayable, I would post them to archive for general distribution. ( Though some, like the nude shot of Marilyn Monroe, are rather racy. Could the Internet get hit with an obscinity charge? Sorry, no nude males available.) In compressed form, they consume a total of about 2 MB. (Also, they display fine under XNeXT). Barry Merriman
dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (root@next1) (08/04/90)
> I have a lot ( about 50 ) digitized images that I > use as backgounds in X windows (via the ``xsetroot -bitmap'' command). > > Any idea how to convert them so that they can be used as NeXTStep backgrounds? > (and, any idea how to convert the NeXT backgrounds (like the Eye) to X form?) > > Ideally, I'd like to have some analog of the xsetroot command, that would tile > the NeXT background with the images, if they don't fill it completely. > Try displaying them under XNeXT, then do a screen grab under Scene, in NextDev- eloper/demos. Also, isn't here a prog to do the conversion under XNeXT? (I'm not at any of my machines, at the moment, else I'd look myself) Finally, there is a program called background, which is on the standard servers, which will load a TIFF in as the background. Just put background -f fname in your .cshrc. If you can't find it, let me know, as I've got it here. -- Dave Strout dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu dastrout%miavx1.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu root@next1.acs.muohio.edu 513-523-8245
lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane) (08/06/90)
In <2051.26ba9add@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: >>... >> Ideally, I'd like to have some analog of the xsetroot command, that >> would tile the NeXT background with the images, if they don't fill >> it completely. >... > Finally, there is a program called background, which is on the standard > servers, which will load a TIFF in as the background. Just put > background -f fname in your .cshrc. If that's the 'background' csh script I posted to the cs.orst.edu server, it will only take EPS files, not TIFF. It will tile, center and scale though. - Christopher -------
nick@bischeops.UUCP (Nick Bender) (08/06/90)
In article <203@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: > > I have a lot ( about 50 ) digitized images that I > use as backgounds in X windows (via the ``xsetroot -bitmap'' command). > > Any idea how to convert them so that they can be used as > NeXTStep backgrounds? (and, any idea how to convert the > NeXT backgrounds (like the Eye) to X form?) For all your image conversion needs, I recommend getting a copy of "pbmplus" from your nearest archive. The following is the file "FORMATS" from the distribution (PBM = Portable BitMap, PGM = Portable GreyMap, and PPM = Portable PixMap): ============================================================================== PBM handles the following formats: Sun icon file reading writing Sun raster file reading writing X10 and X11 bitmap file reading writing MacPaint reading writing CMU window manager format reading writing MGR format reading writing Group 3 FAX reading writing X11 window dump file reading writing X10 window dump file reading Xerox doodle brushes reading GEM .img format reading PC paintbrush (.pcx) format reading PICT reading ASCII graphics writing HP LaserJet format writing GraphOn graphics writing BBN BitGraph graphics writing Printronix format writing PGM handles the following formats: TIFF reading Usenix FaceSaver file reading HIPS reading FITS reading writing PostScript "image" data reading raw grayscale bytes reading Encapsulated PostScript writing PPM handles the following formats: color Sun raster file reading writing GIF reading writing Amiga IFF ILBM reading writing color X11 window dump file reading writing color X10 window dump file reading MTV ray-tracer output reading QRT ray-tracer output reading TrueVision Targa file reading Img-whatnot file reading color Encapsulated PostScript writing ============================================================================= The author is: Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, lll-crg, sun!pacbell, apple, hplabs}!well!jef We've had good success converting all sorts of images to X and Tiff. Good luck, nick@bis.com