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From: e_meier@unibw-hamburg.de (Wilhelm Meier)
Subject: Re: TIFF - GIF - PGM converters.
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In article <3ck9m2$bjm@maya.dei.unipd.it> rinaldo@dei.unipd.it (Roberto Rinaldo) writes:

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> From: rinaldo@dei.unipd.it (Roberto Rinaldo)
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> Hallo,
>   I need to convert a lot of pictures from TIFF format to PPM format, and
> also from TIFF to GIF after some processing (filtering and subsampling).
> I am working on a SUN station, and I can use xv on individual files: since
> my database is large, however, I would like to automate the procedure. 
>   Do you have suggestions on how I can do this? Is there an ftp site where
> I can find conversion programs that I can use in a Unix script file?
>   Thank you in advance for your help,
> 
>   Roberto
> 
> 
Hello Roberto,

look for the netpbm package on the next ftp-server near your location !
It can handle and converts lots of image-file formats, expecially
tifftoppm and (tifftoppm | ppmtogif). With a small awk program you can 
usually generate the appropriate shell-scripts to convert your images in
batch mode.
Hope that helps.
-
Wilhelm
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