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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to create (convert) face?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 13:43:33 -0400."
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:19:20 +0200
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> I don't know why gif -c produced a 16-bit image, but iconv will handle
> the conversion.  If it's a greyscale image, use iconv -c k4 to get a
> 4-bit image.  If it's color, use iconv -c m8 to get an 8-bit
> colormapped image.

Reason: the image contains a 'transparency' index that is converted
to an alpha channel (this is documented in gif(1)).
The image produced starts with: m8a8 0 0 48 48 .
I think the real info is, in my case here, in the transparency index --
the image itself is just completely black, which confused me when I
extracted that part using iconv -c m8.
 iconv -c a8   seems to give (sort of) the result I'm after.

(and again, I'm posting just before leaving for home --
 more (the face) tomorrow -- sorry.)

Axel.