Sujet : Re: Let Us Celebrate NetPBM
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 28. Oct 2024, 04:00:03
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Diego Garcia <
dg@linux.rocks> wrote at 09:37 this Saturday (GMT):
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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Generally, you use images to show to other people, so I don't see how it
being Unix exclusive is a positive.
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A lot of GNU/Linux software will either default to or demand
PNM images for input/output.
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One program that comes to mind is the SANE scanning package
where scanimage will output PNM format only.
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The reason is PIPES.
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All the programs within NetPBM can be piped together to provide
a processing chain. It is thus convenient to have software
output in PNM format so that it can be immediately piped
into a processing chain.
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This is the traditional Unix way.
Oh, cool. I didn't know that.
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