David Parker wrote:
>
> I'm interested in a product that converts images from one type to
> another (such as PDF to tiff, jpeg to tiff) that runs on SPARC/Solaris.
>
> Our company cannot use open source, so I'm looking for vendor-supported
> products. Google shows all kinds open source things that really look
> nice, but sadly, they cannot be used.
>
> If you have any things that you've used, let me know. We are
> investigating Xenos and Adobe said something about ColdFusion.
> ColdFusion seems to be web-based, though. I'm just looking for a command
> line tool or some kind of SDK to include in either C++ or Java.
>

Vendor-supported and open source are not mutually exclusive as you seem to imply.

On Solaris 10, there are two open source, vendor-supported image manipulation
tools, the convert command from the ImageMagik(sp?) suite is most likely what
you are looking for (though I'm not sure how good its pdf manipulation is, you
might need to run it through pdf2ps and then ps2whatever to get what you want.)

ImageMagik:
/usr/sfw/bin/convert
/usr/sfw/bin/display

GIMP:
/usr/sfw/bin/gimp

See:

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/

for the list of supported open source software. The left column of the table is
what is supported and is what is shipped in /usr/bin or /usr/sfw/bin, the right
hand column is not supported and is what installs in /opt/sfw.

Neal

p.s. ImageMagick is listed as "m" managed and not "f" fully supported, but I'm
not really sure what that means because other software that is listed as "m" Sun
applies in-house patches to that have not been accepted upstream. Plus all of
it is "supported" by Sun regardless of how Sun chooses to internally,
(il)logically divide its offerings.