[fitsbits] Re: fits converter -> BMP/JPG code

[William Thompson]

porcello at uclink.berkeley.edu (Darrell Porcello) writes:

>Hello Everyone,

>I was looking for a source for code that would take most fits images,
>parse out its header and convert the image into a BMP or JPG format.
>Freeware of pay, it doesn't matter. I have found lots of fits readers
>and converters, but none really work for my purposes.

>I am trying to design a GUI image processor that would itneract with a
>fits image source, but I don't want to lose the header info.

>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

It's been a long time, but my recollection is that PBMPlus could do this
conversion.  I think the modern name is NetPBM.  Look for either in Google.

Bill Thompson