On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 06:04:41PM -0700, Kevin Turner <Kevin.Turner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (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: Hmm... I just took some gif, converted to grayscale and saved it... the resulting file was a ppm. I'll look into this. > > > In fact, any tool reading ppm will accept pgm or pbm as well, and > > > automatically promote them. > > > > Definitely _not_. > > so this is, presumably, at least true for all the standard netpbm tools. Which comes very short of "any tool". ImageMagick for example will refuse to load a pgm image when you want to load a ppm file. -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |