Bug#276489: RFP: sam2p -- convert raster images to EPS and PDF and others

[Szabó Péter <pts@fazekas.hu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : sam2p
  Version         : 0.44
  Upstream Author : Szabó Péter <pts@fazekas.hu>
* URL             : http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : convert raster images to EPS and PDF and others

 sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many
 raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files. The images
 are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify
 standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. In some cases sam2p can
 compress an image 100 times smaller than the PostScript output of many other
 common image converters. sam2p provides ZIP, RLE and LZW (de)compression
 filters even on Level1 devices.
 .
 Recommendations: package netpbm provides the tifftopnm and pngtopnm utilities.
 Please use tif22pnm and png22pnm (by the author of sam2p) instead of these,
 because *22* provides a much richer functionality with less bugs. package
 libjpeg-prog provides the excellent cjpeg and djpeg utilities.


This RFP was recommended by Stephen McCamant in his email:

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:33:44 -0400
From: Stephen McCamant <smcc@CSAIL.MIT.EDU>
To: pts@fazekas.hu
Subject: sam2p in Debian?

I just downloaded sam2p today, and it's a very cool program. Thanks
for writing it and making it available.

One thing that I think would help sam2p become better known would be
to make it part of the Debian distribution. I see from the 0.44
sources that you've done some work in creating a Debian package, but I
don't see any mention of it on Debian's web pages. Were you planning
on submitting your package there?

Another thing one might want to consider is suggesting sam2p as a
program for an existing Debian developer to package, by submitting an
RFP at

http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

I was actually thinking of doing this myself, but I thought I'd check
with you first.

 -- Stephen



I, the author of sam2p, don't want to be a Debian package maintainer -- I
don't have time for this.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ac4
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