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  2. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  3. Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
  4. Message-ID: <1992Jul22.174704.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
  5. From: ttullio@eagle.wesleyan.edu
  6. Date: 22 Jul 92 17:47:04 EDT
  7. References: <1992Jul22.155239.29529@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Jul22.184626.11607@pony.Ingres.COM>
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  13. edg@Ingres.com wonders:
  14. > 
  15. > Hmmm.  In case I wasn't clear in my original post, the gif2bmp utility is
  16. > supposed to create OS/2 bmps, NOT windows bmps.  That it does so is clearly
  17. > verified by the vpic viewer util I use which displays the bmp just fine and
  18. > says it's of type: OS/2 PM Bitmap.  Still and all, I can't get it displayed
  19. > correctly on the desktop background.
  20. > 
  21. > -edg-
  22.  
  23. Try using VPIC to convert .GIFs into Windows .BMPs... (Hit "W" when 
  24. viewing the file.)  I too had trouble with the "diagonal slant syndrome,"
  25. but when I stopped trying to convert .BMPs to OS/2 format (using
  26. CVTBMP), and just used the Windows flavors, my troubles seemed to cease.
  27. Good luck!
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  32. Tom Tullio                            / / / 2       I always said I wanted to
  33. Wesleyan University                  / /  \                     be someone --
  34. ----------------------------*       / / /\ \         I guess I should've been
  35. TTULLIO@WILLET.WESLEYAN.EDU         \_\/\ \ \                  more specific.
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