dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick) (03/07/90)
When I use various programs to save an image as a StartupScreen, the colormap seems to be altered. I may be wrong, but it looks as if 8 bit pictures are being stripped to 4 bits? I am doing this on a Mac IIci with the standard 13" Apple color display. How can I fix this? Another question which I had is how can you directly change a pict file to a StartupScreen? Can this be done with ResEdit? I don't always keep up with the traffic in this group, so I would appreciate it if people would mail me any answers to these questions. I will of course summarize and post if there is any interest. Thanks in advance, -- David Resnick dresnick@athena.mit.edu
resgroup@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (07/12/90)
Hi: Thanks for all of you for telling me how to download gif files to my Mac. I have a new problem now. I'd like to save a gif picture as the startup screen. I saved the file as a PICT=0 file in giffer1.06. It did come up as a startup screen but the color is messed up. It looked more like a 4-bit color gif files instead of a 8-bit file. Isn't it strange? I checked the StartupScreen file with giffer but it was fine. Any ideas? Yun-cheng
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (07/14/90)
[note the Followup line] In article <13500017@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> resgroup@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes: > >Hi: > > Thanks for all of you for telling me how to download gif files to my Mac. >I have a new problem now. I'd like to save a gif picture as the startup >screen. I saved the file as a PICT=0 file in giffer1.06. It did come up as >a startup screen but the color is messed up. It looked more like a 4-bit color >gif files instead of a 8-bit file. Isn't it strange? I checked the >StartupScreen file with giffer but it was fine. > > Any ideas? This one comes up quite often. Your problem is that the default color table is used at startup, and not the color table for the picture. There are, I believe, INITs that will load in the correct CLUT-- I don't know the names offhand, but someone on the net should know... -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions? Hey! Bush has NO LIPS!