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- Additions to the PbmPlus package.
-
- This enhanced version of the PbmPlus package supports reading of files
- from three different confocal scanners, the Molecular Dynamics (Sarastro),
- the Biorad and the Zeiss. The package can convert from any of these images
- to the pbm format, from which it can produce gif, tiff, x11 dumps, mac paint,
- etc. In order to convert from a confocal image format, use the following
- commands:
-
- * Molecular Dynamics (Sarastro) and Leica:
-
- rawtopgm -tb [file] > outfile.pgm
-
- For more information, give the command "man rawtopgm"
-
- * Biorad
-
- bioradtopgm [-image#] [file] > outfile.pgm
-
- For more information, give the command "man bioradtopgm"
-
- * Zeiss (old format)
-
- zeisstopnm [-pgm|-ppm] [file] > outfile.pnm
-
- For more information, give the command "man zeisstopnm"
-
- * Zeiss (new format)
-
- tifftopnm [file] > outfile.pnm
-
- I have tested the programs on one Zeiss file (old format) and on one
- Biorad file. There probably remain some bugs to be fixed. Please report
- them to me when you encounter them (email:oliver@fysik4.kth.se).
-
- I have compiled and installed the PbmPlus package on the following machines:
- * Silicon graphics (Personal Iris) with gcc 2.4.0
- * Sun386i with gcc 2.4.0
-
- BUGS
-
- The libtiff part can be tricky to compile. On an sgi I managed to use
- gcc. On a sun386i, I had to compile tif_dir.c, tif_error.c and tif_warning.c
- with cc instead. The rest of the files could be compiled with gcc.
-
- On the sun386i, the pgmtexture.c file would not compile with gcc -O.
- It worked fine without the optimization flag. Probably a bug in gcc.
-
-
-
- From the README file:
-
- COPYRIGHTS
-
- All the software in this package, whether by me or by a contributer,
- has a copyright similar to this one:
-
- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
- documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
- that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
- copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
- documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or
- implied warranty.
-
- Many people get confused by this legalese, especially the part about
- "without fee". Does this mean you can't charge for any product that
- uses PBMPLUS? No. All it means is that you don't have to pay me.
- You can do what you want with this software. Build it into your
- package, steal code from it, whatever. Just be sure to let people
- know where it came from.
-