[fitsbits] Re: conversion fits -> gif

Nigel Eke nigel at eke.name
Mon Nov 18 15:31:39 EST 2002


Stupendous Man wrote:
>   HL <hlafoux at hep.saclay.cea.fr> wrote:
>>does anyone know of a simple standalone utility to convert from fits -> gif
> 
>   The ImageMagick suite
>          www.imagemagick.org
> can do it, though I'm not sure if it can handle FITS images other
> than 8-bit integer.

If you need anything more - I have a program that does some bespoke 
conversion of FITS files - it will (should?) handle most formats.

I don't think it would take much to modify it to create GIF images. 
Just let me know.

Nigel




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