commit 8442703323a785cecfe80ce65fa94ddf7f776561
parent 0583a41db24d9fefe271f49d83b0d5d599bb026a
Author: FRIGN <dev@frign.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:55 +0100
Add more clarification on the NetPBM vices
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md b/tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/index.md
@@ -74,8 +74,15 @@ Portable BitMaps, Portable GrayMaps and Portable PixMaps.
It's not helpful when a manpage can't give a simple overview
of a format in a few sentences.
+NetPBM's big vice is that it has originally been developed
+to be hand-written and passed around as plain text.
+Handling optional comments in the header, base 10 ASCII
+width and height values, arbitrary whitespace inside the
+data and out-of-band image size and color depth is too
+painful for the sane user.
+
Judging from the usage of the format considering how long
-it's been around, it's no surprise it never took off.
+it's been around, it's no surprise it never really took off.
Additionally, functionality like alpha channels and 16-Bit
color depth can only be achieved via extensions.
Due to it being a textual format it also lacks the desired
