On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:56:38 -0800 Grant Mathews <grant.m.math...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Grant, > Since the PNM/PAM format already exist as a minimal intermediate > representation with a rich set of commandline tools to manipulate them, > use Netpbm to handle images. back to your desk, Grant, you've missed the purpose of farbfeld. No, to be fair, we discussed the PAM-format at slcon2 in more than one coffee break. Netpbm is arguably almost more complex than BMP and not easy to handle. We could discuss it if it was widely used, but the main point is: __You need a library to handle it__ and it's not that much of a popular format to justify installing a library for it. I don't know about you guys, but I don't have libpbm installed on my computer and even though ffmpeg for instance offers support, I might be having a hard time finding a format ffmpeg _doesn't_ support. You've replaced the entire farbfeld parsing code in sent with the boilerplate "offered" by netpbm. Good job! A question for the diligent reader: Can you read in a netpbm file without first looking into the docs? Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
