On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:22:30 +0100 s...@mailless.org wrote: > ironically, I don't have imagemagick installed on any of my boxes, but > have netpbm on all. (but then I can use any of the numerous ppmto* and > pnmto* and pamto* to convert to whatever I need.)
I don't blame you, imagemagick is a beast. But if you do graphics stuff, the pdf- and other utilites are very handy. > that said, however, I don't really get why one would insist on having > pbm as intermediate format, apart from "because you can". Exactly. > for me, pbm is a medium which allows to apply all the tools available in > the netpbm suite on a bulk of images, and there are quite some of them. I'll think about adding pbm2ff and ff2pbm to the farbfeld-utilities :P Then the crowd is happy and you can use the netpbm suite. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
