want USENIX facesaver to PBM converter

[Dave Marquardt]

In article <4241 at eta.unix.ETA.COM> davem at eta.unix.ETA.COM (Dave Marquardt) writes:
>UUNET now has the USENIX FaceSaver database of faces available, and they also
>have a program available to print the faces on a Postscript device.  The
>pictures print very nicely on my Postscript printer, but I'd like a way to
>convert them to other formats, like X11 bitmaps and Sun icon and raster
>files.
>
>So, does anyone have a program to convert the FaceServer faces, which are in an
>8-bit grayscale format, to a 1-bit bitmap format, like PBM, Sun icon, or X11
>bitmap files?  Please respond by mail.  If there's much interest, I'll
>summarize to the net.

I got many responses on this, about half of them wanting further information
about getting the faces from UUNET and wanting a summary on USENET.  So, here's
some information.

To get information on getting faces from UUNET via e-mail, send a mail message 
to faceserver at uunet.uu.net (or uunet!faceserver) with the subject line of 
"help".

To get the faces via anonymous FTP, ftp to uunet.uu.net and cd to the "faces"
directory.

To convert the faces to a more common format, first get the FBM and PBM
packages, then use the following programs as a basis of your own conversion
programs.  Thanks to Paul M. Aoki of UCB for these.

#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then unpack
# it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file".  To overwrite existing
# files, type "sh file -c".  You can also feed this as standard input via
# unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g..  If this archive is complete, you
# will see the following message at the end:
#		"End of shell archive."
# Contents:  saver2fbm saver2xbm hex2raw.c
# Wrapped by aoki at faerie on Thu Apr  6 20:03:10 1989
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
if test -f 'saver2fbm' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then 
  echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'saver2fbm'\"
else
echo shar: Extracting \"'saver2fbm'\" \(262 characters\)
sed "s/^X//" >'saver2fbm' <<'END_OF_FILE'
X#! /bin/sh
X#
X#	Usage:	saver2fbm < file.saver > file.fbm
X#
XTMPFILE=/tmp/face.$$
XARGS=`tee $TMPFILE | egrep PicData | sed 's/PicData[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)/-w\1 -h\2/'`
Xsed -e '1,/^$/d' $TMPFILE | hex2raw | raw2fbm $ARGS
Xrm -f $TMPFILE
END_OF_FILE
if test 262 -ne `wc -c <'saver2fbm'`; then
    echo shar: \"'saver2fbm'\" unpacked with wrong size!
fi
chmod +x 'saver2fbm'
# end of 'saver2fbm'
fi
if test -f 'saver2xbm' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then 
  echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'saver2xbm'\"
else
echo shar: Extracting \"'saver2xbm'\" \(133 characters\)
sed "s/^X//" >'saver2xbm' <<'END_OF_FILE'
X#! /bin/sh
X#
X#	Usage: saver2xbm [fbhalf options] < file.saver > file.xbm
X#
Xsaver2fbm | fbnorm | fbhalf -P $* | pbmfliptb | pbmtoxbm 
END_OF_FILE
if test 133 -ne `wc -c <'saver2xbm'`; then
    echo shar: \"'saver2xbm'\" unpacked with wrong size!
fi
chmod +x 'saver2xbm'
# end of 'saver2xbm'
fi
if test -f 'hex2raw.c' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then 
  echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'hex2raw.c'\"
else
echo shar: Extracting \"'hex2raw.c'\" \(126 characters\)
sed "s/^X//" >'hex2raw.c' <<'END_OF_FILE'
X#include <stdio.h>
Xmain()
X{
X	unsigned int		val;
X
X	while (fscanf(stdin, "%2x", &val) != EOF)
X		putchar((unsigned char) val);
X}
END_OF_FILE
if test 126 -ne `wc -c <'hex2raw.c'`; then
    echo shar: \"'hex2raw.c'\" unpacked with wrong size!
fi
# end of 'hex2raw.c'
fi
echo shar: End of shell archive.
exit 0