RFS: sam2p: convert raster images to EPS, PDF

[Stefan Fritsch <sfritsch@ph.tum.de>]

Hi,

I am looking for comments and a sponsor for sam2p, a program to
convert bitmap files (GIF,JPG,PNG,...) to Postscript or PDF. What
makes sam2p interesting is that the resulting Postscript files are not
much larger than the source files. This means they are much smaller
than the files produced by gimp, xv, etc. It can even achieve good
compression in PS level 1 by including its own decompression filter
(or so it claims; anybody has a PS level 1 printer to test it?).

Package name: sam2p
Version: 0.44-7
Upstream Author:Szabó Péter <pts@fazekas.hu>
URL:  http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p/
License: GPL
RFP/ITP bug: #276489
Description: convert raster images to EPS, PDF, and other formats
 sam2p is a command line utility that converts many raster
 (bitmap) image formats like GIF, JPG/JPEG, and PNG into
 PostScript or PDF files. PS or EPS files created by sam2p are
 usually not much larger than the source file.

The package I have build can be found at
http://home.mnet-online.de/stf/sam2p/

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Stefan