Compface-1.4

Introduction to Compface

Compface provides utilities and a library to convert from/to X-Face format, a 48x48 bitmap format used to carry thumbnails of email authors in a mail header.

Package information

Installation of Compface

Install Compface by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../compface-1.4-errno-2.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

This package contains compface, uncompface and libcompface.

Description

compface

compface is a filter for generating highly compressed representations of 48x48x1 face image files.

uncompface

uncompface is an inverse filter which performs an inverse transformation with no loss of data.

libcompface

libcompface allows the compression and decompression algorithms to be used in other programs such as MTAs.