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by yjftsjthsd-h 924 days ago
Not even just manually typing... Last time I wanted to have a program save a picture [0] it was easiest to write PPM and then convert that to a real format. Super inefficient file sizes, but good tradeoff for a hobby project. I can take some big intermediate files in exchange for not needing a graphics file format library:)

[0] I was playing with the Linux framebuffer and wrote - among other things - a screenshot tool.