ImageMagick vs. NetPBM

[Puneet Kishor]

There has been a lot of discussion here re (Image|Perl)Magick. I have not installed it on my iBook but have installed and used it on my Windoze box and found it to be very fun. However, I recently came across NetPBM. While it might be old news for some of you, I had never heard of it, and reading through the docs it seems to be everything ImageMagick is.

Any insights into NetPBM as a replacement/substitute/alternative for ImageMagick on Perl/OS X platform would be greatly appreciated.

Many tia,

Puneet.