Re: How to don't use symbolic color within xpm

Thanks,

I haven't think of using script, that's a good idea, I will take a look 
on that (although I would prefer an option with convert in the future).

Boris

Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:37:48 -0400
> [email protected] wrote:
> | Hi,
> | 
> | I want to convert png image to xpm (using convert image.png convert.xpm) 
> | but the file has some symbolic color, e.g:
> | 
> | "1  c gray82",
> | 
> | I have some problem to show the image on Windows computer (ok with 
> | Linux). If I change the symbolic color with the hex value, e.g.:
> | 
> | "1  c #D1D1D1",
> | 
> | then everything is ok. I was wondering if it's possible to use an 
> | argument with convert to use hex value everytime.
> | 
> I had this problem a long time ago.
>
> My solution was a shell script that looks up the colors, and replaces
> the hex stringa with X window color names.
>
> The scripts for this is part on my old "Anthony's Icon Library"
>    http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~anthony/icons/
>
> Specifically the script directory in
>    http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~anthony/icons/support/scripts/Icons.html
>
> And the scripts
>     xpm-fix        Fix the X pixmap output from pbmplus (restore color names)
>     color_db_mk    Create a reverse color name database (for xpm-fix)
>
> These are also related.
>     colorname      find the rgb.txt colorname of a pixel #rrggbb value
>     color_lookup   Print the #rrggbb pixel value for a named X window color
>
> The "color_db_mk" creates a small table of hex to color names dealing
> with the fact that some hex values has multiple color names in the X11
> RGB color table.
>
> The "xpm-fix" uses the table to substitute the hex values with color names.
>
> NOTE this is OLD stuff.  I make no guarantees.
>
>
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