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in reply to How to create and save an image from RGB values

For the records:

We talked about it in the CB and I suggested to create a trivial lossless and uncompressed intermediary raster-image file in a format known to ImageMagick's convert °

But I failed to find a sufficiently easy format or a module helping writing it.

Possible candidates are GIF , TIFF , BMP ...

They all require to pack some non-trivial headers.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

update

°) to be further converted to a highly compressed format