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- From: elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott MIS x 363)
- Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.180750.4620@lmt.mn.org>
- Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
- References: <1992Jul23.120402.26003@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:07:50 GMT
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- > 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,
- >>>
- >>>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
- >
- > 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.
- >
- I've used the GIF2BMP program and have noticed that the skewing effect
- you describe occurs on the 8-bit-color BMP files but not on the 4-bit-color
- BMP files. I am using the Orchid 0.9 drivers at 1024x768x16 on a generic
- ET4000 card; perhaps the number of colors available to the desktop makes
- a difference. (I haven't tried it with the 1024x768x256 drivers, so I
- can't say for certain, but it's a hypothesis worth testing.)
-
- Elliott
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