Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

From: <ssd_AT_mailless.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:22:30 +0100

* FRIGN 2015-12-12 20:45
> The fun thing is: sent currently supports pbm as well when you run 2ff, because
> it internally calls imagemagick's "convert" in case it detects a file format
> not handled by the native farbfeld tools.
> This means that if you supply sent with a pbm file, it will run it through
> 2ff just fine. Try it yourself. :)

ironically, I don't have imagemagick installed on any of my boxes, but
have netpbm on all. (but then I can use any of the numerous ppmto* and
pnmto* and pamto* to convert to whatever I need.)

that said, however, I don't really get why one would insist on having
pbm as intermediate format, apart from "because you can".

for me, pbm is a medium which allows to apply all the tools available in
the netpbm suite on a bulk of images, and there are quite some of them.

cheers
--s
Received on Sun Dec 13 2015 - 11:22:30 CET