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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:28:31 GMT
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- In a previous article, edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) says:
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- >Hi all,
- >
- >I got some gif files and converted them to os/2 bitmaps using a conversion
- >utility, gif2bmp which I got from GEnie. When I try to use the converted
- >bitmaps as a background for the desktop or lockup, the image is not displayed
- >correctly -- it is scewed and wrapped across a diagonal.
- >
- >I thought that the gif2bmp utility was probably messing them up in the con-
- >version, but when I use vpic ( a dos-based image viewer ) it correctly
- >displays the image and identifies it as an OS/2 PM bitmap.
- >
- >Does anyone know what the problem might be and if it can be fixed?
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- From what I understand, not all bmp's are created equal.
- There are windows bmp's and OS/2 bmp's. Some windows bmp's
- will work under os/2 & vice versa. But not all
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