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Re: XPM Library

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jun 01, 1999
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Graeme wrote:

>        title1.bmp       -  23.3k
>        title1.xpm       -  22.7k
>        title1.e (incbm) -  10.1k
>
>The simplicity of the test bitmap has been kind to XPM;
> It more than doubled the size of some I tried it with.


Graeme is entirely correct; the XPM format is *not* a memory efficient
method for graphics storage; I would heartily recommend that people use his
tools if they are in search of an efficient means of storing in-line
graphics data.

The XPM format is not something that was designed by myself; it's a format
that was developed and is still commonly used on the Unix platform for
encoding graphics. I've found XPMs useful as an intermediate format for two
reasons:

1. It gives a means of reading Unix XPM files.

2. It's sometimes more convenient to create and edit graphic images in a
text editor. The XPM format is well suited for this.

In both cases, that doesn't mean the files have to remain XPM files.

-- David Cuny