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In message         Chris King writes:

> I don't. Most of the clients machines (Windows) that I produce for still
> run 640*480 256 colour both internally and externally to the University.
> That's why I still use 8-bit images as it is probably the base level at
> which you could expect a client to have.

I'll can't argue this point since I am not that familiar with DOS machines
outside of this university.

> The only consideration that I give to using higher than 8bit pict images is
> if the quality of the image is more important than the concept or idea that
> you are representing

This is true in our case.

I totally agree with the rest of your post.

> Just another tip:
>
> When you convert from APM to APW use the load palette option from the file
> setup dialogue box on Windows. Load the palette from any pict file that was
> generated from Photoshop and saved as a 8bit system file. You might want to
> preserve that system colours on windows for dialogues and menus. If you do
> this the displayed images will be almost exactly as they were on the Mac.

Thanks!!  I am not authoring on APW so I did not know that you could even load a
palette without writing a DLL and/or XCMD.  Does this method produce images
comparable to 16 bit when you use the load palette option?

Also, I need to retract something I posted earlier.  I was mistaken when I said
to choose QUICKTIME JPEG compression when importing picts.  So far, anytime that
I have chosen that option, I was not able to open the picture in APW.  Sorry
that I may have misled some.

Thanks

John
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