Subject: Re: POVray : tga -> rle
From: Craig.Humphrey@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Andrew Humphrey)


In article <ltqp28INNpa7@pageboy.cs.utexas.edu>, jhpark@cs.utexas.edu (Jihun Park) writes:
>Hello,
>I have some problem in converting tga file(generated by POVray) to
>rle file. When I convert, I do not get any warning message. But
>if I use xloadimage/getx11, something is wrong.

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>I know that I need to install ppmtorle and tgatoppm, but I do not spend
>time to install them. Even I do not want to generate .rgb from POVray
>and then convert them to rle, if possible.(.rgb to rle works, but
>it will mess up my directory with so many files, and it needs 2 more
>steps to finally convert to rle file. say cat | rawtorle | rleflip )
>Does any body out there have same experience/problems ?


Well for starters, why use rle files?  You might have a specific program that
needs them, OK, but I tend to convert straight to jpeg format, thus a 2.4meg
24bit targa file becomes a ~80k or less 24bit jpeg.

The latest versions of XV (2.2.1 ?) and xloadimage (3.03) both handle jpeg files.
And the best way to convert to jpeg is with the c/djpeg suit.  Even at 90%
quality (you can't see the difference) the jpeg is way smaller than anything
else even an 8bit gif!

Later'ish
Craig
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