Re: Fixes to PNM/PGM/... reader/writer

Posted by dscho on Jan 11, 2007; 9:10am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fixes-to-PNM-PGM-reader-writer-tp3700640p3700644.html

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Spencer Eugene Olson wrote:

> I don't care whether people like diffs or not.

That is okay. My last remark on this issue: if you want other people to
look at your work, make it most convenient for them.

> With regards to the important part of my post, yes, stacked PAM (PNM,
> etc, etc) images are defined by the format, although there are few of
> the netpbm programs that use it.

The home page says something about July 2000.

> I don't think that my changes were too complicated, but that is just my
> opinion (especially in the writer).

What I wanted to say is that your patch does not introduce the minimal
change to do what it tries to do. Maybe I did a poor job explaining that.

> Oh, and yes, you can actually store information about the image in
> netpbm.  This can be done in the form of comments instead of some
> standard header.

I did not find any documentation on the preferred way to specify the
bounding box, or alternatively the voxel dimensions. Could you enlighten
me as to what are the common methods?

Ciao,
Dscho