From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] new versions of graphics programs? From: "rob pike" Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:57:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000907215724.10A3619BEF@mail> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05595070-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I started on a couple of the tools. Since the PIC format is now largely irrelevant - the standard image format captures much of its capabilities - it seemed worth retiring the fb software. Retiring it also helped keep the distribution smaller and easier to assemble. But clearly, some of the tools in fb/ are worth having. I worked on a couple of the tools and stumbled into original bugs that I didn't see how to fix, so that project has stalled. The shipped gif and jpg tools and the iconv program should address some of the lower-level needs. Higher-level image processing is a project for a dedicated soul; it's a big job. -rob