Be Careful! Was: Re: Brutal Deluxe : PicViewer

[rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall)]

Olivier Zardini (zardini@emi.u-bordeaux.fr) wrote:
:   			Hello,

: 	You will find in comp.binaries.apple2 or in the ccosun.caltech.edu
: a .shk file called PictViewer.

: In this file you will find three folders containing:

:         - Convert2dg:
:                 A simple program that loads any picture from a directory and
:                 then converts it to the DreamGraphix formats.

This is both a suggestion to Zardini as well as a warning to people
using Convert2dg.

When you use Convert2dg, make sure that the entire directory which you
select the picture in does not have any pictures that are bigger then
a screen size.  If they are bigger then the screen, convert2dg will
truncate them.  I lost three pictures that way, not realizing that
convert2dg worked on a whole directory at a time. :(

Zardini - It would be nice if convert2dg popped up a warning dialog
asking if you wanted to continue if it was going to try to compess a
picture that was bigger then screen size.

Also convert2dg not only truncates, but it loses the palettes for
3200+ pictures.  (ie APF stored pictures that have one palette per
scan line)

Richard "Who thinks that Zardini must not own any pictures bigger then
the screen ;)" Wifall