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- From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: SDSC Image Tools and PBM Plus [and FBM and XV and Khoros...]
- Summary: No source code; no sale.
- Message-ID: <104030@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:14:52 GMT
- References: <1ifpdeINN2ov@network.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <1ifpdeINN2ov@network.ucsd.edu> nadeau@sdsc.edu writes:
- >And so on. There are significant differences between the SDSC Image Tools
- >and the PBMPlus package. Let us return to the net posting that sparked this
- >discussion:
- >
- > >Don't forget pbmplus *is* available in source code and does 99 percent
- > >of what imconv does (and often does it faster!). It's available with
- > >the X11 distribution in the contrib directory or from your favorite
- > >FTP site (wuarchive.uwstl.edu comes to mind).
- >
- >- PBMPlus clearly does *not* do 99% of what the SDSC Image Tools do.
-
- I think you're missing the point. PBMplus (and the packages which
- many of us use with it: Mauldin's FBM package, the JPEG toolkit,
- Sam Leffler's TIFF package, and the XV image viewer) can all be used
- together to create a fairly powerful image manipulation and conversion
- environment. Each by itself has its own merits and faults, but
- combined together, they've served the network community quite well.
- Each of these packages has also benefited from the authors' willingness
- to integrate fixes and improvements from the network community.
-
- For those with needs that go beyond relatively simple conversion, scaling,
- and resizing, the freely-available Khoros package provides a *huge*
- suite of extremely powerful tools -- utilities, libraries, GUIs and
- copious documentation -- whose functionality goes far beyond anything
- brought up in this discussion so far, and whose free support from the
- folks at U. New Mexico has been absolutely outstanding.
-
- Whether these packages do 99% of what the SDSC image tools do or not
- is immaterial; they're freely available in SOURCE CODE form, which
- is a killer advantage over the SDSC tools.
-
- ---Rsk
-