About:
NetPBM (formerly PBMplus) is a package of over 220 programs that convert from one graphics format to another and do simple editing and analysis of images. There are no interactive tools in this package, and nothing that displays graphics of any kind. It is like a non-GUI equivalent of ImageMagick, GIMP, and Adobe Photoshop, etc. Over 100 graphics formats are handled, including JPEG, MPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XWD, XBM, G3 fax, and special formats used by digital cameras and handheld computers. Over 40 editing functions include scaling, cropping, quantization and dithering, colorizing and uncolorizing, blurring, and dimming. Netpbm programs are often invoked by other programs, for example in CGI scripts that manage web site graphics. It also includes a C function library which helps you write programs to process graphics at a lower level than the Netpbm utilities.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
In the past year, 14 new programs have been added, and lots of new features were added to existing programs. There are about 20 bug fixes. Jpeg2000 converters now exist, the Windows Icon converters understand 32-bit icons, and the BMP converter works on more BMP variants, including 16-bit. Tifftopnm also handles more variations of TIFF. Lots of additional documentation has been written.

Author:
Bryan Henderson [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.20/10.00 (6 votes)

Homepage:
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5128
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Freely Distributable
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	10.33	19-Apr-2006	Freely Distributable

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
10.33	Minor bugfixes	19-Apr-2006 06:40
10.17	Major feature enhancements	06-Sep-2003 19:46
10.8	N/A	06-Sep-2002 07:19
9.16	N/A	27-Aug-2001 18:09
9.9	N/A	06-Dec-2000 10:33
9.7	N/A	04-Aug-2000 19:41
9.5	N/A	30-Jun-2000 21:31
9.3	N/A	01-Jun-2000 21:56
9.2	N/A	16-May-2000 07:04
9.1	N/A	06-May-2000 20:51

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New netpbm-free packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, May 18th 2008 13:15 Red Hat: Updated netpbm packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 4th 2008 10:48 Debian: New netpbm-free packages fix arbitrary command execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 28th 2006 13:13 Red Hat: Updated netpbm packages fix two security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Dec 20th 2005 12:13 Debian: New netpbm packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Nov 22nd 2005 01:21

Red Hat: Updated netpbm packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Oct 18th 2005 10:57 Red Hat: Updated netpbm packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 25th 2005 14:42 Red Hat: Updated NetPBM packages fix multiple temporary file vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Feb 9th 2004 11:51 Debian: New netpbm-free packages fix insecure temporary file creation by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jan 19th 2004 06:56 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Metalab has them
by pete - Jan 19th 2000 17:49:58

You can find them at ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/apps/graphics/convert Hope this helps Peace, Pete

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