Re: .jpg viewer for IIGS?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article zelix@drift.winternet.com (Peter Handel) writes...
> 
>Once you have it in GIF, use Prism.  It lets you convert the picture
>a lot more quickly to Greyscale or 16 colors, and gives you the option
>of converting it to 256 or 3200 colors.  Also, I haven't run into a

	Don't forget Prism's TrueColor function. It allows you to view
a small portion of any GIF/TIFF/IFF/etc as if you were viewing it on a
Macintosh or IBM with _real_ 8-bit+ color support. R-G-B info is not
separated as it is in SuperConvert, you actually see the image as-is,
the only drawback is only a small window area. I'm not sure how this
is accomplished, but my guess is a 3200 image flipped sideways (200
colors per scanline) and then mirrored back. This would explain why
it's 16 pixels wide, 200 pixels long. It also uses a kind of HAM
mode to do 32 pixels across in "wide" mode (thus the flicker). This 
is all guessing of course... :) Still quite impressive, my brother
once scanned a photo of himself in 24-bit color on a Mac, then showed
it to me on his 486 in 32k color. I later brought the image over to 
Prism and it looked nearly as good in "TrueColor" mode! 

>screen size limitation such as SuperConvert.  The only nice thing
>about SuperConvert is its ability to save files as GIFs (only 16
>colors tho) and load _a lot_ of formats.                 ^^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^

	That's incorrect, SuperConvert v3.00 and v3.01 allow you to
create GIF images in 16 or 256 colors. I've loaded in multi-palette
Super-Hi-Res images and exported them as 256 color GIFs. I know the
resulting output GIF files come out okay as I've converted them on
IBMs and Macintosh systems. All IIgs palette data is preserved.

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Mitchell Spector
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