Importing common bitmaps

[Simon Cox]

>ideally, we should have r.in.ppm since netpbm (pbmplus) is distributed
>with grass. That way we don't need r.in.sunrast, r.in.tiff,
>r.in.gif, etc. Am I correct in this thinking? Is there any instance
>where ppm is not generic enough?

I agree, but I did notice that converting from PICT -> ppm -> sunrast
caused the lut's to get stuffed up a bit (this was in my Monash Uni
incarnation a few months ago).

Simon Cox

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