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In article <1992Dec16.154036.2457@sae.com> malay@sae.com writes:

>If you're talking about pchrome3's gif function - it's not that execellent -
>apparently, it has a problem dealing with gifs that are smaller than 320x200 -
>a gif that is 200x200 will look like it has been "stretched" horizontally with
>equally-spaced vertical black bands "filling" in the necessary area to make
>a 320x200. If this 200x200 gif is "padded" with "black space" on either side
>to make it a 320x200 then the gif function of pchrome3 works fine.

Another problem (distorting the picture out of its "true" proportions)
seems to occur with GIFs that have their height greater than their
width.  It would be a *great* thing if the "squash picture/select
320x200 section of picture" option could be extended to handle cuts of
arbitrary size from the original picture (maybe even allow the user to
distort his selected section thus giving complete control over any
part of the picture. I know this is not easy to implement.)

>All in all, pchrome3 is the BEST display program yet for the ST - they just need
>to work out a few kinks.

Yes, the quality is amazing. They really should continue their
excellent work. BTW, on my 3MB (german) TOS 1.4 machine the
DoubleClick PCS viewer seems to lock up, i.e. it displays the picture
correctly, but I can't get back to the desktop again. Is there some
esoteric key combination to be pressed to quit (yes, I've tried the
mouse buttons as well), or is it a problem with the TOS or the
programme itself?

While I'm complainig:
A *serious* flaw of the native PCS viewer/slideshow is that it expects
the pictures to be on drive a! This *really* needs to be fixed! :-)

Christoph