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Re: XPM Library

• Posted by Normand Blais <marcel_ya at YAHOO.COM> Jun 02, 1999
• 624 views

Last night, I used Dave's xpm tools. Work very well. I would to thank
him.

Regards,

Normand M. blais

--- David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:
> 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
>

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