Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > I was thinking that fprint could use somemore exporting functions for > images other than PGM (not a very useful one). WSQ is *very* needed and > I think it would give the lib a nice plus. Also maybe JPEG, PNG? > > What does everyone think?
Who uses WSQ other than NIST? What is it's advantage? (My WSQ knowledge is only the bare minimum needed to work with NBIS) Probably wouldn't object to JPEG/PNG (assuming code is clean and can be modularized and excluded at compile time in future) but which use cases are you envisioning for this? PGM is ideal because it is the true representation of images inside the library, and it is trivial to interpret and render. Also, I do not really expect any "real" users of the PGM export function, I expect apps to interpret the greyscale directly and do whatever they want with it. There are easy ways for apps to convert that to an arbitrary format - for example see how fprint_demo saves to .png One concern I'd have is that people would then request more and more formats. Not sure whether we should be heading this way... Daniel _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
