* Picon questions
@ 2002-01-12 19:08 Karl Kleinpaste
2002-01-12 19:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-13 5:46 ` Daniel Pittman
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From: Karl Kleinpaste @ 2002-01-12 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
The automatic picon creator referenced off the indiana.edu pages is
AWOL, not accepting connections. Can someone tell me a suitable
pipeline to convert a given face.gif to a picon-compatible colormap?
They're supposed to be reduced to a 32-color set. I started using
picons just today, and I'm using a mess of new *.gif that I've
created, but they're surely not within the right color parameters as
discussed at indiana.edu.
Also, it seems to me that, once people have picked up the picon
*.tar.Z files, they'll never again get them (they're huge). Is there
any sort of auto-update scheme, I suppose in a subscription motif,
where one could be notified of new picons' availability?
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* Re: Picon questions
2002-01-12 19:08 Picon questions Karl Kleinpaste
@ 2002-01-12 19:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-13 5:46 ` Daniel Pittman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2002-01-12 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
> The automatic picon creator referenced off the indiana.edu pages is
> AWOL, not accepting connections. Can someone tell me a suitable
> pipeline to convert a given face.gif to a picon-compatible colormap?
> They're supposed to be reduced to a 32-color set. I started using
> picons just today, and I'm using a mess of new *.gif that I've
> created, but they're surely not within the right color parameters as
> discussed at indiana.edu.
I'd suggest taking a file with known good colors (i.e., something from
the picons database that uses similar colors to what you want to use),
and then use "ppmquant -map that-file.ppm your-file.pmm" to convert
your file to use the same color map.
> Also, it seems to me that, once people have picked up the picon
> *.tar.Z files, they'll never again get them (they're huge). Is there
> any sort of auto-update scheme, I suppose in a subscription motif,
> where one could be notified of new picons' availability?
In the old version of the picons code, there were functions for
fetching picons off of the web. I haven't resurrected that code
yet...
But, no, I haven't heard of any auto-updating scheme. Beyond "apt-get
upgrade". :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Picon questions
2002-01-12 19:08 Picon questions Karl Kleinpaste
2002-01-12 19:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2002-01-13 5:46 ` Daniel Pittman
2002-01-19 22:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Pittman @ 2002-01-13 5:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
[...]
> Also, it seems to me that, once people have picked up the picon
> *.tar.Z files, they'll never again get them (they're huge).
Aren't they?
> Is there any sort of auto-update scheme, I suppose in a subscription
> motif, where one could be notified of new picons' availability?
Not that I was ever able to find. The Debian maintainer of the picons
does a fairly infrequent update of the packages...
...but if someone with a large amount of (free) bandwidth was to set up
an rsync server or something like that which people could update from,
that would be very nice. :)
Daniel
--
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
-- William Ruckelshaus, _Business Week_, 18 June 1990
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* Re: Picon questions
2002-01-13 5:46 ` Daniel Pittman
@ 2002-01-19 22:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2002-01-19 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> ...but if someone with a large amount of (free) bandwidth was to set up
> an rsync server or something like that which people could update from,
> that would be very nice. :)
The problem with the picons is that they aren't free, so that would
have to be OK'd by the picons maintainer personages.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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