aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axel Roest (N)) (03/27/91)
Hello! I am looking for the description of the GIF & TIFF standard. I just acquired a frame grabber with mediocre software and I want to save pictures in a more standard format So I want to write a program to convert the screen buffer to a GIF or TIFF file. Does anyone have these descritions (sure someone has'em) or knows of a FTP server that stores them? Thanks! Axel -- I'ld rather have an Uttoxeter than an IBM thingy. (The meaning of Liff)
jan1073@isc.rit.edu (J.A. Nedelka ) (03/28/91)
In article <1991Mar27.142759.11945@fwi.uva.nl> aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axel Roest (N)) writes: >Hello! >I am looking for the description of the GIF & TIFF standard. >I just acquired a frame grabber with mediocre software and I want to save >pictures in a more standard format >So I want to write a program to convert the screen buffer to a GIF or TIFF >file. > >Does anyone have these descritions (sure someone has'em) or knows of a >FTP server that stores them? > >Thanks! >Axel > Ditto. Thanks. :-) -- Jan A. Nedelka / "So much for true love!" The Fourth Doctor / ---Ursula, the Sea Witch Arnold J. Rimmer / "I'm not finished..." jan1073@ultb.isc.rit.edu / ---Edward Scissorhands
marcos@netcom.COM (Marcos H. Woehrmann) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar27.142759.11945@fwi.uva.nl>, aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axel Roest (N)) writes: > I just acquired a frame grabber with mediocre software and I want to save > pictures in a more standard format > So I want to write a program to convert the screen buffer to a GIF or TIFF > file. > No, you don't really want to do that. Writing GIF and/or TIFF files correctly is non-trivial (and we don't need any more badly written files out there). Find some file converter that you like (PBM on a UN*X box works well, there are a couple for PCs and MACs (mail me if you need more specific information)), then find a simple format that the converter supports (PPM for PBM, etc.). Now you can write out files in that format and use the converter to convert to GIF/TIFF and not have to worry about getting everything right. marcos p.s. If you really want a copy of the GIF and/or TIFF specs mail me your US mail address and I will send them to you (they are available via FTP, but since I can't ftp from this site I really don't know where). -- Marcos H. Woehrmann {claris|apple}!netcom!marcos | marcos@netcom.COM Oh, I'm sure you've heard it all before, but remember it's not what you say, it's how you say it, and how much you're paid to do so, and besides who's listening anyway. No one, that's who, because it's all been said and done and done and done and done to death. Let's talk about art, said the fool to the idiot. --Lydia Lunch