From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 22 20:09:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA23541 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA23517 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id FAA19147; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:09:24 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id FAA05248; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:09:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id EAA20683; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:48:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604230248.EAA20683@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hpscan To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:48:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 21, 96 11:16:58 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Chang wrote: > oh okay, never knew there was a hpscan/pkg/DESCR file. All ports have it... > is ppm formats quality as good as gif files? PPM is just raw pixels, in 24-bit format. Rather bloated files, but full resolution and color depth. > hmmm, okay. any ideas how to do transparent gifs? does either > xv or xpaint do this? This is in the ``Authoring for the Web FAQ''. At least, netpbm does it, as well as interlaced GIF. GIF is a non-optimal format for scanned photos, better use JPEG. The usual savage for a Web page photo is between 70 and 90 percent compared to GIF. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)