icontact-1.2 (14jun92)

This is the third release of icontact.  The only new features are the
-k and -K options.  I have also cleaned up the code and the man page
a bit.

I would appreciate hearing from you if you find icontact useful or have
suggestions on how to make it better.  I only have access to a
SPARCstation running SunOS 4.1.2, so icontact has only been tested in
this environment.  If icontact fails in your environment, let me know
so I can fix it.

Send all e-mail regarding icontact to cs62a12@wind.ucsd.edu.

Here is the DESCRIPTION section from the man page:

  icontact is a perl script that takes a bunch of image files and creates
  contact sheets.  icontact determines the file format by the file name
  extension of the input files and then uses internal tables to look up
  the commands it needs to convert the images to the ppm format.  Once in
  the ppm format, icontact uses various pbmplus commands to create the
  contact sheets.  icontact is particularly useful if you have lots of
  image files in all sorts of different formats and you want to create an
  index of all of them without converting them all to a common format
  first.

  icontact is highly configurable.  It can probably do anything you would
  ever want this type of program to do - and more.  If you think of
  additional features that would be useful for a program of this type to
  do, tell me and I'll see what I can do.

  Besides perl, icontact requires the pbmplus package by Jef Poskanzer.
  The Independent JPEG Group's package (cjpeg, djpeg) is also necessary
  if you are going to be processing any JPEG files.  It should not be
  difficult to add filters from other packages as long as there is a way
  to go to and from the ppm format with them.

THANKS TO
- Roger Hayes (roger.hayes@eng.sun.com)
    for sending me an implementation of the -W option.
- Larry W. Virden (lwv26@cas.org) 
    for suggesting the -O option and the feature that allows you to take an
    old contact sheet and add new images to it.

I hope you find icontact useful,
mark