This is the Utah Raster Toolkit distribution version 3.0 of June, 1990.
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librle.a, image.rle file type support, animation, rletogif, converters, many utilities.
RLE format supports a great number of raw inner formats for applications to use, known together as .rle (ie, "stored windowing")
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The Utah Raster toolkit is a collection of programs and C routines for dealing with raster images commonly encountered in computer graphics. It provides the following major functions:
* A device and system independent image format for storing images and information about them. Called the RLE format, it uses run length encoding to reduce storage space for most images.
* A library of C routines for reading, writing and manipulating images stored in the RLE format.
* A collections of programs for manipulating and displaying RLE images.
License: says it's "GNU like" in the license.
Features
- NEW: Build.urt.linux script for GNU/Linux (see Files) gets files and builds one step.
- librle.a library
- rletogif, rletops, animation, rleheader, many more utils
- getx11(1) rle viewer w/mouse action
- rle has maximum of 24bit color
- RLE is an older format
- xli(1) supports rle images, as do many X11 apps
- netpbm does not provide all of "urt rle"
- netpbm's new librle.a has "pm_error" undefined bug
- full documentation and manpages for everything
- linux usu. provides librle.a and a few utils
- gnu note: urt has not yet been gnu-ized (automake) because it is an easy build that has not yet shown build environment issues