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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:04:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.120402.26003@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Jul22.155239.29529@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) says:
- >
- > >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?
- >
- > 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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- I got my GIF2BMP from Hobbes. I've converted about a dozen gifs with no such
- problems. Maybe you have a Windows gif2bmp?......get the one from Hobbes.
-
- Steve
-
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