Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm!

From	Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm!
Date	2025-09-01 01:28 +0000
Organization	Some absurd concept
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:11:41 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
>> On 2025-08-26, jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
>>> Can't ImageMagick take over for netpbm? Frankly I'm surprised it still
>>> compiles. I'm not knocking it - just surprised it's still getting love
>>> after all these years.

netpbm has working documentation unlike Imagemagick

>> On the contrary, simpler code should be easier to compile and to port.

Besides documentation, I like the pbm formats (pbm for monochrome, pgm
for grayscale, ppm for RGB, pam for more complicated things) as
interchange when writing my own tools to stick in a processing pipeline.
Imagemagick, being a monolith, does not cope with user tools well.

> But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like deep 
> pixels.

???

https://deep-pixels.com/

Elijah
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admits the pam formats have not gotten much love

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Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-08-26 17:22 -0400
  Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-08-27 15:11 +0000
    Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-27 23:29 +0000
      Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-09-01 01:28 +0000
        Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-01 02:58 +0000
        Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm! c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-01 03:07 -0400

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