Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee
From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF --> SUN
Message-ID: <3097@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 03:37:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.3097
Posted: Wed Jun  1 23:37:37 1988
References: <4032@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> 
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article  trudel@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.) writes:
>Our news has been semi-sporadic recently, and I haven't seen the
>IFF-Sun translator that you mentioned.  Could you mail the sources to me?
>Thanks!
>
>						Jon

I replied to the last requestor by e-mail, but I guess I will tell the net.

I have a program that will convert from IFF -> SUN. It is based on the program
"claz" which converted from IFF -> Postscript.

I am not willing to post it yet, the reason being that it requires a lot more
work to make it into production quality. I am willing to send it via e-mail
to anyone who is interested, especially to someone who is willing to put in
some work. I am also willing to post it as is if there is a strong demand.

Currently, the program can convert any IFF/ILBM file to Sun raster file. It
will either create a Sun color raster file (that's easy), or it will convert
to a monochrome Sun raster file. Variants of the same program will create
grey scale dittering using one color pixel to 4 monochrome pixel, or to 6
monochrome pixel. The result is remarkably good.

There is considerable work left to make it more robust about IFF file handling
(problem was with the "claz" code), and to put in command line options to
handle the different output options so the different variants can be merged
into a single version.

I will probably not be working on that for a while yet, and, again, be quite
willing to let someone else take a crack at it.

Please send me e-mail message if you are interested in getting a copy, in
getting it posted as-is, or in working on it.
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