[Biojava-l] Advice on Java set up

[Mark Schreiber]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Ewan Birney wrote:

> 
> BTW -
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> Is it really true that Java has no simple in built -> GIF or -> PNG
> converters for awt/swing/whatever components? (confused shake-of-the-head
> from over here. Why on earth not!)
> 

I have been down this path, there is some support for JPEG in
com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.*

There is alot more support for most graphics types in the Java Advanced
Image Library (JAI 1.1). Not for the faint of heart though, very powerful
and somewhat confusing package. JAI is available free from Sun.

Mark


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