Hi Fons, Did you look at GNU plotutils: http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ and if so, how was it lacking? (just curious). -Brett. Fons Rademakers writes: > The TImage class (abstract) interfaces to libAfterImage via > TASImage. I am working with the author of the libAfterImage > (http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/afterimage/) to make the library > more portable (works now on Linux, IA-64, HP-UX, True64, to be tested > on SGI, Sun). Before settling on libAfterImage I compared it with > imlib and xv. libAfterImage was much better in scaling images > than the others and faster too (on MXX capable pentiums it uses MXX > instructions). It needs the standard image access libs like libpng, > libtiff, etc to be able to read other formats. > Interfacing to different input/output formats should not be too > difficult. Via the abstract TImage interface we can later interface > to the next best image lib. > > I expect to release in CVS sometime next week. > > > Cheers, Fons. > > > > > Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > > > Hi Fons, et al, > > > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:34:32 +0100 > > Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> wrote > > concerning "Re: [ROOT] Picture/Pixmap/Bitmap from data": > > > We are working on an interface to an image processing library. > > > > Sounds like a brilliant idea. Are you rellying on third-party > > software like ImageMagick or similar? (with obvious references to the > > not-so-old GUI discussion on this list.) > > > > > ... to print the images in the pads in PS or to save them to png, > > > tiff, xpm, gif, etc. > > > > What about saving in Metapost, LaTeX, Fig, ladida formats? I think > > the Fig thing would be very intresting, since you'll be able to open > > the file in XFig (my drawing tool of choice) and do various fun > > stuff. Metapost is intresting since it produces high-quality output - > > much more so then most other programs can do, and then it integrates > > well with TeX. (How many articles are written in Word these days - I > > think LaTeX is still the typesetting system of choice for most > > people - no wonder). > > > > Ok, so it may be a bit more tricky, and probably not something you can > > get 3rd-party libraries for easily, but I thought it worth a mention. > > > > Yours, > > > > Christian Holm Christensen ------------------------------------------- > > Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23 > > Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > > Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > > -- > Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. > Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland > E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 > WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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