alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil) (03/22/91)
HI! I am having troubles with PICT graphics for ColorDesk. Usually I use Giffer (1.0) to convert the GIF graphics I download in UNIX to the PICT format that ColorDesk requires. When I inspect these PICT images Giffer display it identical but when I load it from ColorDesk they look distortioned! Do you know of a better program that Giffer (if this is the problem) or have any tip I shoul know? Plesea e-mail any comment, Thanks! ****************************************************************************** * Alfredo De Regil Salinas Universidad de las Americas * * Ingenieria de Proyectos Puebla, * * Centro de Computo Mexico * * * * E-mail: * * Bitnet address alfredo@udlapvms (Vax) * * Internet address alfredo@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx (Vax) * * alfredo@cca.pue.udlap.mx (Sun) * ******************************************************************************
chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.193116.19499@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX> alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil) writes: > HI! I am having troubles with PICT graphics for ColorDesk. >Usually I use Giffer (1.0) to convert the GIF graphics I download in UNIX to >the PICT format that ColorDesk requires. When I inspect these PICT images >Giffer display it identical but when I load it from ColorDesk they look >distortioned! It's not Giffer's fault -- it's colordesk's, I think. If ColorDesk is anything like zDeskPict (the one I use) then it stretches any pict you use to fill your desktop. So the way to avoid this is to make your pict already be the size of your desktop. (ie. screen...) "It's not a bug -- it's a FEATURE!" Actually, that's true... it's just too bad you can't turn it off... Ian Chai chai@cs.ukans.edu 2fntnougat@ukanvax.bitnet -- Ian Chai Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax
clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel) (03/22/91)
alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil) writes: >Usually I use Giffer (1.0) to convert the GIF graphics I download in UNIX to >the PICT format that ColorDesk requires. When I inspect these PICT images >Giffer display it identical but when I load it from ColorDesk they look >distortioned! What is happening is that the picture you converted has a different color table than the standard system color table. Giffer changes the table to display the image correctly while ColorDesk does not. DeskPicture (part of the Now Utilities commercial package) does the same things as ColorDesk plus additional features like supporting custom color tables and custom scalings. --Clay (author of DeskPicture) -- Clay Maeckel * UUCP: {ames,apple,portal,sun,voder}!claris!clay (I know nothing!) * Internet: clay@claris.com * GEnie: C.MAECKEL Claris Corporation * AppleLink: Maeckel1 * CompuServe: 73057,255