Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP

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From: Meir I Green
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:52

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No, IMSHOW does not work right....
2.1b
IMSHOW looks like someone scribbled with crayon in all the wrong colors.
Also, after exiting, the desktop colors don't switch back to the original!

In article <1993Jan28.164029.22888@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <Xk32XB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> pcadoret@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Peter Cadoret) writes:
>>` >What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
>>` >Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>` >If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
>>` Ditto.  Where does one pick up a program that does such a conversion? 
>>        Try WinJPEG..... it's slow, but it's the only one I've found
>>that converts the colours correctly........And I have yet to find a OS/2 
>>.GIF viewer which displays pictures correctly with my 256 colour 
>>drivers....The background screen displays them fine, so it ain't a 
>>problem with the drivers......Anyone have a suggestion?
>
>Does IMShow work for you?
>
>Stay tuned, though -- there's a terrific new GIF viewer now in beta
>testing.  Multithreaded, even.
>
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | READ the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
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