CTAN update: sam2p
Date: September 10, 2009 9:39:35 AM CEST
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: sam2p
Version number: 0.47
Author's name: Péter Szabó
Location on CTAN: /graphics/sam2p
Summary description: convert raster (bitmap) images to PostScript, PDF and other formats
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 PostScript devices.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sam2p (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on Level1 PostScript devices.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sam2p (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
sam2p – Convert bitmap formats to compact PS/PDF
Sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files and several other formats. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other common image converters. Sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression filters even on output destined for PostScript Level 1 devices.
The author provides a script bundle, a2ping, that uses sam2p as part of a generic format conversion mechanism.
| Package | sam2p |
| Version | 0.49.4 |
| Maintainer | Péter Szabó |