Re: [K3d-development] CVS release notes - K-3D 0.3.0.52
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From: Andy G. <mun...@ma...> - 2003-07-29 19:28:33
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> Brett W. McCoy wrote: > > Brett W. McCoy wrote: > > > >> Red Hat 7.3 (and I think RH 8.0) seems to use 9.24, which also does > >> not support the options. My suspicion is that the truecolor support > >> became available in the 10.x series. > > > > > > Correction -- 9.24 does support the -color and -truecolor options. The > > author of netpbm just informed me that these became available in 9.21. > > If you use Debian (even Sid), you will need to install 9.21 or higher > > from source for netpbm to work with the latest CVS snapshots. > > Brett: > > Many thanks for doing the legwork on this - now we can update our > configure script in the short term and give folks a specific version to > shoot for. > > I was contemplating including our own pnmtotiff in the K-3D sources, but > this raises an even larger issue: since netpbm does not support alpha > channels, we lose the alpha when we load an image, and we lose it when > we write it out (for use by the render engine). This is a pretty big > hole in our feature list, so it would be great if somebody could write a > new image import/export plugin or plugins. I'm just throwing out ideas > here: > > * libtiff > * libjpeg > * libpng > * ImageMagick (they have a library, right?) > * PLIB (I think they do image file formats) > * Whatever else you dream up. > > Cheers, > Tim have any of you looked at the DevIL library? i used for a project recently and found it very straightforward, plus it supports loads of formats. http://openil.sourceforge.net/ just a thought. andy. -- Andy Gill mun...@ma... -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail |