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  • Re: All Hail The Great Netpbm!

    From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Thu Sep 4 22:21:12 2025
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    In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On Mon, 1 Sep 2025 01:28:39 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:
    netpbm has working documentation unlike Imagemagick
    You didn't know about <https://imagemagick.org/>?

    Quick: is some option true for the installed version or only the
    latest version?

    But conversely, netpbm has not been updated for modern features like
    deep pixels.
    More than 8 bits per pixel component.

    For as long as I've been using it, better than thirty years, the image
    format and many of the tools have supported up to 16 bits per component.

    Netpbm has supported this longer than an alpha channel. (But earlier
    versions supported using a second image as an alpha.)

    Elijah
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    was working with twelve bit grayscale in the mid-90s
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