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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Mar 2002.

                            
    
    
Re: Gif to Ascii Converter
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Gif to Ascii Converter

                    

                        From Harry Mason <spa...@no.spam>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 12 Mar 2002 09:20                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:15:00 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL>
wrote:
>  --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
>  		--(Harry Mason said it like only they can.)--
> > I think giftopnm generates either ppm or pgm files, depending on the
> > palette in the input file. 
>  
>  ?? depending on the palette?  That does not sound like any command
>  line conversion app I have ever used.  Sounds more like windows make
>  in choices you never wanted it to make.

I think a 2-colour GIF will generate a pbm, a 256-gray GIF will create a pgm,
and anything else will generate a ppm.

If it generated a specific format it would be called giftoppm (or whatever).
pnm is not a real format - it means either ppm, pgm or pbm.

ppmtopgm(1) says 'any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm) files automatically'.
Even if giftopnm has generated a pbm or pgm, you can still pipe it through
ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii successfully. I've tested this with pbmmake
and pgmcrater and it works.

-- 
Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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