Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
* Package name : sam2p Version : 0.44 Upstream Author : Szabó Péter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p/ * License : GPL Description : convert raster images to EPS and PDF and others sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 devices. . Recommendations: package netpbm provides the tifftopnm and pngtopnm utilities. Please use tif22pnm and png22pnm (by the author of sam2p) instead of these, because *22* provides a much richer functionality with less bugs. package libjpeg-prog provides the excellent cjpeg and djpeg utilities. This RFP was recommended by Stephen McCamant in his email: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:33:44 -0400 From: Stephen McCamant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sam2p in Debian? I just downloaded sam2p today, and it's a very cool program. Thanks for writing it and making it available. One thing that I think would help sam2p become better known would be to make it part of the Debian distribution. I see from the 0.44 sources that you've done some work in creating a Debian package, but I don't see any mention of it on Debian's web pages. Were you planning on submitting your package there? Another thing one might want to consider is suggesting sam2p as a program for an existing Debian developer to package, by submitting an RFP at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ I was actually thinking of doing this myself, but I thought I'd check with you first. -- Stephen I, the author of sam2p, don't want to be a Debian package maintainer -- I don't have time for this. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ac4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C