Re: Be Careful! Was: Re: Brutal Deluxe : PicViewer

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Richard J Wifall (rwifall@nmsu.edu) wrote:
> 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)

this must have been posted at the very moment I was destroying an entire 
directory of pics.  Richard is right.  Everybody watch out... I just lost 
a bunch.  >:(




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