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- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Path: sparky!uunet!areyes!deano
- From: deano@areyes.com (Dean Carpenter)
- Subject: Re: Raytrace and RLE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.140839.10905@areyes.com>
- Reply-To: deano@areyes.areyes.com (Dean Carpenter)
- Organization: Areyes, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec10.054520.5379@ornl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:08:39 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Dec10.054520.5379@ornl.gov> ajwright@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Albert J Wright) writes:
- >
- > I used "rletogif file.rle > file.gif" and all I keep getting is
- >"file.gif is not an RLE file" Am I doing something incredibly stupid or is
-
- The problem is that the .rle file is a 24bit color file, one byte each
- for red, green and blue, while .gif is a 256 colors only, or 8bit file.
- You need to quantize the .rle file down to only 256 colors.
-
- Use to8, mcut or rlequant. If you have the pbmplus package, you can also
- convert to ppm format with rletoppm and then use ppmquant.
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