[Freeciv-Dev] Re: XPM format

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jeff Mallatt wrote:

> At 2001/01/22 17:29 , Nathan Ólafur Richardsson wrote:
> >This isn´t exactly a suggestion to you but rather contributors, but could
> >you suggest to tileset makers etc. to also include a PNG version of the GFX?
> >
> >I´m having big problems finding a converter that supports XPM. Just a tiny
> >thing for us Winblow users :)
> 
> <ahem> Seriously, there are converters out there.  Though the whole package
> is overkill, you can use the Convert program from the ImageMagick suite
> <http://www.imagemagick.org/> to convert between XPM and PNG.
> 
> If someone knows of something better, I'd like to hear about it also.

Well you can use XnView on Windows (it even works properly on Windows 2000):

http://www.xnview.com/

My fave image viewer/converter on Windows.  Off with AcdSee...  Linux
version also available.  But then again who needs it when you have GIMP &
XV?

How many other viewers can you find for fuzzy bitmap, Hires C64 or Koala
Paint? :-)

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa