jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (07/28/89)
It was driving me nuts! I had used DigiView to create several pictures
of 320 by 200 by 32 colors, and every time I read them into Dpaint, it
would put up a requester asking if I wanted to change the screen format to
match that of the picture. I would say YES, but loading another picture
produced the same darn requester. "But it's already in that mode!"
After fooling around with the Page Size, the problem became obvious.
Dpaint-III would not allow me to select height of less than 217. And where
did it get that number? It's the size of my WorkBench screen. (I have
"morerows -rows 17 -columns 32".) I guess it was designed to be a feature
(to automatically use the taller screen on PAL systems), but it should have
set the lower limit to 200, not to the Workbench height.
I called Electronic Arts - it had been reported already. Their advise is
what you'd expect: "Boot from a disk that doesn't have morerows". Grumble.
I wish there was a way to tell Dpaint how much of the picture to save.
I want it to save it as a small picture (instead of as a brush) and the
option to specify the size as either a set of numeric coordinates or by
using the mouse.
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