/* README */

/******
  Copyright (C) 1993-1999 by Klaus Ehrenfried. 

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
  is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears 
  in all copies and that the software is available to all free of charge. 
  The author disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, 
  including all implied warranties of merchant-ability and fitness. 
  The code is simply distributed as it is.
*******/

This package includes the sources of the programs `ppm2fli' and `unflick'.

ppm2fli:  This program generates FLI/FLC animation files from a series 
          static images.
unflick:  It does the opposite of `ppm2fli'. It can extract the images of 
          a FLI animation. 

PPM2FLI can read directly PPM,PGM,PBM and FBM files. If necessary it
performs a quantization. The filters of the NETPBM, PBMPLUS and FBM package
can be used as read filters. Together with one of this packages
a large number of image formats can be handled.

UNFLICK writes images in PPM or FBM format. 

In contrast to FBM2FLI no additional package is requiered to build 
PPM2FLI and UNFLICK. So it can be used without any of the above mentioned 
packages, if another source of PPM,PGM,PBM or FBM images is available.
For example, PS images can be animated using ghostscript.

PPM2FLI is supposed to be easier to install and easier to use than FBM2FLI.
But in some points is may be less flexible.

Files:
	README			-- this file
	CHANGES			-- additional information

	Makefile		-- Unix makefile

	abrun.c		\
	acolor.c	|
	adelta.c	|
	afbm.c		|
	aframe.c	|
	aimage.c	|
	ainput.c	|	-- source of ppm2fli
	alc.c		|
	alist.c		|
	amain.c		|
	aoctree.c	|
	appm.c		|
	apro.h		/

	umain.c		\
	uoutput.c	|
	upro.h		|	-- source of unflick
	uunfli.c	|
	uwchunks.c	/

	ppm2fli.man	\	-- Unix man pages
	unflick.man	/

The previous version which was released to public was `ppm2fli_b1.92'.
The current version is `ppm2fli_2.0d'. Between these versions are no major 
changes in the functionality of the programs. For more details see the
file `CHANGES'.

-- Klaus Ehrenfried (ehrenfri@hobo.pi.tu-berlin.de)

