Bug#935534: sam2p
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Subject: RFP: sam2p -- 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.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : sam2p
Version : any
Upstream Author : Peter Szabo <pts@fazekas.hu>
* URL : https://github.com/pts/sam2p
* License :
Programming Lang:
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.
(Include the long description here.)
This program was formerly a part of Debian, but
the package was removed in 2016, pursuant to bug
824174.
Although the package's Debian Maintainer stated at
that time that the package was unmaintained
upstream, and that the Google Code home page had
disappeared, the project currently has a page on
Github (https://github.com/pts/sam2p) ; the
original upstream developer appears to be active
there on other projects; and there has been a
commit in this project as recently as July, 2019.
Also, it appears that fixes made by the original
developer have been incorporated into the version
in Jessie by the Debian Security group.
Although Image Magick convert and some other
programs can convert images to PDF, this package,
sam2p, appears to produce more compact PDF files,
and allows the user directly to control the way
the image is encoded, stored, and compressed in
the output PDF file.
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