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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:42:31 -0500
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From: Simon Wieczner <smtp01!snowbnd.com!simwiz>
Subject: Re: Urgently needed: Fast CCITT G4 (TIFF T6) to GIF with
  scaling. Small footprint
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Hi Michel,
Snowbound Software offers commercial, cross platform libraries including
AIX that provide high speed conversion of this type.  (www.snowbnd.com)

At 03:32 PM 3/2/1998 +0100, Michel Plungjan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I need to convert A4/Letter sized images from CCITT G4
>(can be presented as TIFF T6 if needed) to GIF and scale from
>2592x3508 to 1200x817 in the process
>
>ImageMagick/libTiff can do this with a Mitchell filter but this is
>REALLY
>a pig, hogging both memory/swap file and cpu.
>
>Normally this would not be a problem, but since this will be done on the
>
>fly and perhaps several times concurrently I am really unhappy.
>
>Does anyone have any alternatives?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Michel
>
>PS Has anyone compiled ImageMagick/libTiff under AIX?
> 
best regards, 
Simon Wieczner 
Snowbound Software Corporation tel: 617 630-9495 fax: 617 630-0210 
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