[comp.sys.amiga.graphics] ADPro for converting 24bit IFFs to GIF

mark@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) (06/29/91)

The other day I had said that the GIF images that I had seen which
were created by ADPro looked terrible compared to those done by a public
domain X11 based converter called xv. Well someone who was more
knowledgeable in the use of ADPro demonstrated the conversion to both
PCX and GIF from my 24bit IFF. The results were vastly superior to those
I had previously seen. While the images were still not quite as good as
those from xv, they were better than ones derived from ppmquant (from
the pbmplus toolset). The demo certainly changed my opinion of ADPro
for GIF creation (ADPro had always looked so good for everything else).
I just wanted to set the record straight.
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johnh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (John J Humpal) (06/29/91)

In article <62178@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
> Well someone who was more knowledgeable in the use of ADPro
> demonstrated the conversion to both PCX and GIF from my 24bit IFF.
> The results were vastly superior to those I had previously seen.
>
	Mark, what magic did this knowledgeable person work to convert
IFFs to decent PCX/GIF with AdPro?  Can you fill us in?

John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer