Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 21:45:05 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Brive <brive@mail.dotcom.fr> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I convert PostScript to .gif? Message-ID: <199812212045.VAA02348@cergy1-1.isdnet.net> In-Reply-To: <19981221174907.F24125@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 21, 1998 5:49: 7 pm"
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> On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 17:23:59 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > ... > The solution I chose was to find a convenient resolution (in my case, > about 200 dpi) and use that to convert to a ppm file. The files are > *ridiculously* large, about 50 MB for a relatively small image, and by > default Ghostscript uses /tmp as its temporary directory. You can > override the directory with the TEMP environment variable, so what I > finally wrote was: > > $ TEMP=. gs -sDEVICE=ppm -r200x200 pic2.ps > > Greg Perhaps you could use pgm instead of ppm if you are with gray scale (the tempfile is 3 times smaller), ppmtogif will read also read pgm files. -- Robert Brive <brive@mail.dotcom.fr> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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