Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Subject: RFP: sam2p -- convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats sam2p is a command line utility that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats like GIF, JPG/JPEG, and PNG into PostScript or PDF files. PS or EPS files created by sam2p are usually not much larger than the source file. Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
* Package name : sam2p Version : any Upstream Author : Peter Szabo <p...@fazekas.hu> * URL : https://github.com/pts/sam2p * License : Programming Lang: Description : convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats sam2p is a command line utility that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats like GIF, JPG/JPEG, and PNG into PostScript or PDF files. PS or EPS files created by sam2p are usually not much larger than the source file. (Include the long description here.) This program was formerly a part of Debian, but the package was removed in 2016, pursuant to bug 824174. Although the package's Debian Maintainer stated at that time that the package was unmaintained upstream, and that the Google Code home page had disappeared, the project currently has a page on Github (https://github.com/pts/sam2p) ; the original upstream developer appears to be active there on other projects; and there has been a commit in this project as recently as July, 2019. Also, it appears that fixes made by the original developer have been incorporated into the version in Jessie by the Debian Security group. Although Image Magick convert and some other programs can convert images to PDF, this package, sam2p, appears to produce more compact PDF files, and allows the user directly to control the way the image is encoded, stored, and compressed in the output PDF file.
