hi, one pretty small question .... i wanted to create my own mini-distribution, using syslinux to boot the system. Everything works pretty fine, but now i wanted to see a graphic on boot time. :-) I saw i have to create a graphic with the file-extension .ppm ... but please tell me with which programm i am able to use such an extension? gimp? dont think so ... hope to hear of you ... thanks in advance, h.d. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr f?r 1 ct/ Min. surfen!
harald delmann wrote:> hi, > > one pretty small question .... > i wanted to create my own mini-distribution, using syslinux to boot the > system. > Everything works pretty fine, but now i wanted to see a graphic on boot > time. :-) > I saw i have to create a graphic with the file-extension .ppm ... but please > tell me with which programm i am able to use such an extension? gimp? dont > think so ... > hope to hear of you ... >ppmtolss16, which is distributed with SYSLINUX. -hpa
harald delmann wrote:> hi, > > one pretty small question .... > i wanted to create my own mini-distribution, using syslinux to boot the > system. > Everything works pretty fine, but now i wanted to see a graphic on boot > time. :-) > I saw i have to create a graphic with the file-extension .ppm ... but please > tell me with which programm i am able to use such an extension? gimp? dont > think so ... > hope to hear of you ... >Sorry... misread the question. GIMP is a good choice to create your image, actually. Not only does it let you save images as .ppm, but it also handles quantizing images down to 16 colors quite well. You can also use the netpbm toolkit, which is a bunch of programs with names like <format>to<format>; in this case the second <format> should be "ppm" or "pnm". Say you have a .png image; then you'd use: pngtopnm file.png | ppmtolss16 [options] > file.lss -hpa
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, harald delmann wrote:> one pretty small question .... > i wanted to create my own mini-distribution, using syslinux to boot the > system. > Everything works pretty fine, but now i wanted to see a graphic on boot > time. :-) > I saw i have to create a graphic with the file-extension .ppm ... but please > tell me with which programm i am able to use such an extension? gimp? dont > think so ...Well, you have to have Gimp save the image as a .pcx file then use the command pcxtoppm (or save as an .rgb file and use rgb3toppm). Steve Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu