nadeau@network.ucsd.edu (Dave Nadeau) (03/26/91)
San Diego Supercomputer Center Image File Format Conversion Tools Release 1.0 March 25, 1991 The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is pleased to announce the binary release of its image file format conversion tools. These tools currently support the following image file formats: Format Description ------- -------------------------------------------------------- cgm Computer Graphics Metafile gif Compuserve Graphics image file hdf Hierarchical Data File iff Sun TAAC Image File Format mpnt Apple Macintosh MacPaint file pbm Portable Bitmap file pic PIXAR picture file pict Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file pix Alias image file ps PostScript file ras Sun Rasterfile rgb SGI RGB image file rla Wavefront raster image file rle Utah Run length encoded image file rpbm Raw portable Bitmap file synu Synu image file tiff Tagged image file x Stardent AVS X image file xbm X11 bitmap file xwd X Window System window dump image file Multiple variants of each format are supported (monochrome, color index, RGB, RGB+Alpha, uncompressed, run-length encoded, with and without color maps, etc), as appropriate to the format. These tools are available for the following UNIX machine architectures: Architecture Description --------------- ------------------------------------------------ alliantfx2800 Alliant Computers, FX/2800 alliantfx80 Alliant Computers, FX/80 crayy Cray Research, Cray Y-MP sgi4d Silicon Graphics, SGI 4D sun4 Sun Microsystems, Sun 4 and SPARC Other architectures will be added in the future. SDSC software products are available via anonymous ftp from 'sdsc.edu' (VMS). The anonymous ftp directory tree is structured by machine architecture, and then by topic. For instance, to get the image tools for a sun4, use: ftp> cd sdscpub ftp> cd sun4 ftp> cd graphics or ftp> cd [.sdscpub.sun4.graphics] ftp> type binary ftp> get imtools_tar.z imtools.tar.Z imtools_tar.z is a compressed tar archive. imtools_cpio.z is a compressed cpio archive. Binaries, man pages (nroff source and post-nroff), and release notes are included. Source will be available in the future. 00README's and 00INDEX's in the ftp directories explain their contents. To get one of these, use: ftp> get 00README 00README ftp> get 00INDEX 00INDEX If you have any questions, please contact SDSC at: E-mail: info@sdsc.edu Phone: (619) 534-5100, 8am-5pm, pacific time Thank you. Dave Nadeau Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory San Diego Supercomputer Center