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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
Starshine Technical Services,
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>More on: Automated PostScript (ps) to GIF Conversion</H3>
<p><strong>From Steven Hancock on Fri, 08 Jan 1999
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Hi, here's another solution to the problem of converting postscript
files to gif. Get the ImageMagick package, if it isn't already
installed, and use its mogrify command, like this:
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mogrify -format gif somefile.ps
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and this will create somefile.gif. The man pages on mogrify and convert
for more information.
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I figured there was something like this out there.
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Here's a few of other commends that are part of my
copy of ImageMagick:
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<blockquote><pre>/usr/X11R6/bin/animate
/usr/X11R6/bin/combine
/usr/X11R6/bin/convert
/usr/X11R6/bin/display
/usr/X11R6/bin/identify
/usr/X11R6/bin/import
/usr/X11R6/bin/montage
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(I cut this list from a much longer list that's
generated with the command 'rpm -ql imagemag'
on one of my <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">S.u.S.E.</A> boxes. A similar command
would work on any RPM based distribution).
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One utility of special note is:
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/usr/X11R6/bin/xtp
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... which is actually a command-line FTP client
for getting and putting files from/to FTP servers.
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(There are several other FTP client utilities that
can be operated non-interactive by command line
invocation --- so it seems like a duplication of effort
to have ImageMagick include one. Presumably the author
couldn't find one of those at the time that he needed
this).
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These are the sorts of things I like to see in the
Tips HOWTO and the "2-cent Tips" columns in LG.
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Also I'd love for someone to put together an overview
of Linux graphics software with some ideas about how to
use xfig, tgif, ImageMagick, xv, the GIMP etc. Not
something as sophisticated as the Graphics Muse --- but
simpler things for those of use that just need to whip
up some web page icons or draw diagrams and charts for the
occasional project at work.
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Obviously I'm ill-suited to this task since I'm an
avowed text mode bigot.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
>Copyright &copy;</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 37 February 1999</H5>
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