Tiff-to-Sunraster revisted

[Paul Emerson]

I must have missed the discussion of a TIFF-to-SunRaster filter.  But I
had a need, (background images for Sunview) for such a filter, so I wrote
one.  My version is really TIFF to PBM, but it is easy to just pipeline
the commands: "tiff2pbm Tifffilename | pbmtorast > SunRasterFile".  This
program doesn't fully implement all the feature of TIFF, but it will
convert a TIFF file (single bit plane) created on a Mac.  I have used it
to convert a TIFF file 1152 x 1850 from ThunderScan.  Although I believe
Thunderscan has a bug in it's TIFF converter function, for very large
images, such as the one mentioned.  I had to tweek the image size to the
correct values before running the TIFF file through my program.  I haven't
had any problem with other images.  I will post this program in it's
current state if anyone is interested.  It may be a good starting point
for others,(or just trash).  I knocked it off very fast, and haven't
gotten back to it, but it does suit my needs at this time.

Paul
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