[CREATE] What is a "swatch" ?

[Chris Lilley]

On Friday, September 28, 2007, 8:32:49 PM, Jon wrote:

JP> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 19:48 +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>> Alternatively exists PPM, just space is a concern.

JP> What is PPM?


Portable Pixmap. A dead-simple ascii-based raster image format used as the core of the NetPBM image toolkit to convert random image format X to random format Y; convert X to ppm and then ppm to Y. If I recall correctly it was invented by Jef Poskanzer in the early 90s.

man page
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html

wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_pixmap


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