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- From: ronmercer@gnh-bauhaus.cts.com (Ronald E. Mercer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: More 3200 pic questions
- Message-ID: <m0mCizo-0000PAC@crash.cts.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:07:46 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- > Apparently, my previous post didn't make it to the net. Here
- >are my questions again. I have a program called Super View which allows
- >you to convert 3200 uncompressed files to 3200 compressed files, but
- >these compressed files are saved as $C0, aux $0002 files. Many paint
- >and graphics programs assume these to be 16 color compressed files,
- >and the pictures don't load correctly. Are there any programs besides
- >Super View which load 3200 compressed files correctly? Super Convert
- >or Dream Grafix?
-
- Super View saved your image as a "3200 color Apple Preferred" image. Meaning,
- it saved your image as a normal Apple Preferred image, probably tossing in a
- grayscale palette, and added a MULTIPAL block which contains all 200 palettes.
-
- Thus, to any program that doesn't specifically know about the MULTIPAL block,
- the image appears to be a 16 color image with an unknown block at the end
- (being your MULTIPAL block) which will be ignored. So viola... you get 16
- color garbage instead of your 3200 color image.
-
- My programs, Prism, SHR View, and Emerald Visions can load these images
- correctly, and at any size (width x height). I'm almost positive that
- DreamGrafix can load them also, but I can't say I own it to try it.
-
-
- By the way, Super Convert's 3200 color support really stinks, so I don't know
- why you'd bother loading a 3200 color image into it. I'm not really sure if
- it can load 3200 color Apple Preferred images though... I don't think it can
- (but again, I've never tried).
-
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- InterNet: ronmercer@gnh-bauhaus.cts.com Ronald E. Mercer
- Programmer.
- (Apple IIGS and NeXT)
-