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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!grumpy
- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
- Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:52:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.145244.11404@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1992Jul22.155239.29529@pony.Ingres.COM> <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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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
-
- The best way I've found to make bmps from gifs is to run vpic or cshow in a
- windowed DOS VDM, mark and then copy the entire image to the clipboard,
- and then paste the image back into the icon editor. File it as an OS/2
- bmp, and then save it in \OS2\BITMAPS. Voila, a new background bmp!
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- Jeff Markel
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