External utilities

External utilities are not part of Munipack, but ones offers important functionality for some processing or data output presentation. They are not shipped with Munipack to prevent any "dependency hell". Also, some from ones are not maintained by me.

Rawtran and dcraw

Rawtran is a conversion utility from RAW images produced by digital cameras (.CR2, .RAW) to FITS format. Practically, Rawtran is only a wrapper around dcraw which offers better functionality in conversion of PPM to FITS than offers standard utilities recommended by D.Coffin on his page.

Rawtran is available on same ftp server as Munipack:

as "stable" version

 rawtran_0.X.x.tar.gz

 rawtran_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz

Note that rawtran needs dcraw for run. Please, use your packaging system or look for installation instructions on dcraw homepage.

All functionality of rawtran is in detail described in article Improvements of RAWTRAN in my blog.

Fitspng

Fitspng is a conversion utility to convert of FITS images to PNG format. The conversion is not only trivial "rearranging of bytes", but it must recompute integer 16-bit or float representation of image data to 8-bit range which is required by modern display devices. The utility also offers color image composition, resizing etc.

Fitspng is available on same ftp server as Munipack:

as "stable" version

 fitspng_0.X.x.tar.gz

 fitspng_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz

Note that Fitspng needs libpng for compilation and run. Please, use your packaging system or look for installation instructions on libpng homepage.

All functionality of Fitspng is in detail described in article Improvements of FITSPNG in my blog.

Installation

An installation of any external utility can be done from its distribution tarball by the generic way:

  bash$ gzip -dc sometarball_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz | tar -xf -
  bash$ ./configure
  bash$ make
  bash$ make install
  bash$ #make uninstall

where it is need to substitute a downloaded tarball for sometarball_*.tar.gz. Details of installation can be found on installation page.