On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:27:09AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > ppm saving works. But I am unable to create pgm or pbm files with the gimp > (pbm is known for some time, but gimp definitely writes a ppm file for > greyscale images). that's not what "file" thinks about the attached files: pudding.pgm: PGM image text pudding2.pgm: PGM "rawbits" image data various "pgm*" tools accept them as well. Those were created from gimp 1.1.19, and lxr reports no substantial changes to plug-ins/common/pnm.c in the last month. > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:55:46PM -0700, Kevin [...] wrote: > > In fact, any tool reading ppm will accept pgm or pbm as well, and > > automatically promote them. > > Definitely _not_.