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- From: kenyee@ksr.com (Ken Yee)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: TARGA/JPEG/TIFF viewer for win3.1
- Message-ID: <14880@ksr.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:07:26 EDT
- References: <1992Aug11.205937.3062@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <7283@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu> <12517@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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- mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
-
- >In <7283@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu> cellis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis) writes:
- >>800x600x256. I can't say whether it would work on an actual 24bit video system.
- It should.
-
- >It doesn't work too well with my 15 bit graphics card. I think the
- >problem is more in its internal 24 bit image handling than in the
- >display side of things. Trying to convert 24 bit images from one
- >format to another results in corruption. 8 bit images are fine.
- Actually, the Windows display driver should be able to take
- any 24-bit DIB and display it properly; it doesn't. The 24-bit
- image has to be dithered down to the available colors.
- The soon to be released 1.4 version corrects the latter problem
- you mentioned as well as the 15-bit display problem.
-
- ken
-
- p.s., any problems should be addressed to the authors at:
- nyee@osiris.ee.tufts.edu
- kenyee@ksr.com
-