[GRLUG] GRF images?

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:00:11PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:48 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Michael Mol wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:25 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >> > May have to convert PNG to GRF images [in a program on demand], .. don't
> >> > suppose anyone has ever worked with them?
> >>
> >> First line of defense, try imagemagick.
> >>
> > Thought of that, but it doesn't seem to be supported:
> >
> > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
> 
> Huh. I hadn't heard of GRF files before. Apparently, they're not an
> image format, but a graph description format.
> 
> http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/data/grf/grf.html
> 
> Neat!

This is one of the problems with relying on a file extension to
determine the file type.  .grf is a really old image format as well as
the extension used by certain graphing applications.

http://www.convert-extensions.com/format/GRF-Stanford-Image.html
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