Article 4486 of vmsnet.misc: Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!sousa.amt.tay1.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!blanc.physics.uiowa.edu!dyson From: dyson@blanc.physics.uiowa.edu (Rick Dyson) Subject: Re: How to convert TIFF-files to SIXEL-files? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: comet.physics.uiowa.edu Message-ID: <1995Nov7.084138@blanc.physics.uiowa.edu> Lines: 68 Sender: news@space.physics.uiowa.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa References: Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:41:38 GMT In article , bdelbecq@bnbb.be writes: > > How can i convert a file in Tiff or PS or Bitmap formats to the SIXEL format to > print this SIXEL-file on a printer DEClaser 2100? > Thanks. How about NetPBM? It can start with a TIFF and can make SIXEL output files. $ tifftopnm < image.tiff | ppmtosixel > image.six & NetPBM is on many VMS FTP sites as well as the "official" generic sites. I will append a blurb below. It has "out-of-the-box" VMS support in it already. Enjoy! rick -- Richard L. Dyson INTERNET: Dyson@IowaSP.Physics.UIowa.EDU When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me? -- Montaigne ******************************************************************************** N E T P B M Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations. The package is intended to be portable to many platforms. It has been tested under UNIX (BSD and SYSV, e.g. SGI, Sun4, Sun386i, DEC and Apollo DN 3500), VMS and Amiga OS. There are also compiler directives in it for MS-DOS. You'll find the latest release of Netpbm at the following sites: * wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), directory /graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM * ikaros.fysik4.kth.se (130.237.35.2), directory /pub/netpbm. * ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (134.106.1.9). This site also carries binaries for the Amiga. * peipa.essex.ac.uk (155.245.115.161), directory ipa/src/manip * ftp.rahul.net (192.160.13.1), directory /pub/davidsen/source * ftp.cs.ubc.ca, directory /ftp/archive/netpbm * ftp.x.org, directory /contrib You'll also find a mirror site at the BBS: * sixhub.tmr.com in the "source" area. Netpbm is based on the widely spread Pbmplus package (release: 10 Dec 91). On top of that, a lot of improvements and additions have been made. After the latest release of Pbmplus, a lot of additional filters have been circulating on the net. The aim of Netpbm was, to collect these and to turn them into a package. This work has been performed by a group of program- mers all over the world. If *you* have some code to add, please contact us, and we will incorporate it. There is a mailing list for discussions about Netpbm. You post a message to the list by writing to "netpbm@fysik4.kth.se". If you want to be on the list, please contact the list administrator, "oliver@fysik4.kth.se". Please note, that this is not an official Pbmplus release. The code in this release is merely a collection of code from various sources around the world. Not all of the new code parts follow the high standard of programming of Pbmplus. We have tried to make the code portable to as many systems as possible, but we haven't cleaned up all routines. We hope that this release will help the many users of Pbmplus to upgrade their code all in one piece, instead of having to hunt down different code fragments at different sites around the world. We also hope, that our effort will help the author of Pbmplus, Jef Poskanzer, to make a new official release soon.