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Re: GIF/RAW/RCS/SPC ETC.

#21195
From: Bob Malay
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:06
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In article 11919@informatik.uni-bremen.de, christof@wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de (Christoph Koerner) writes:
>
>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.)
>

No sense in re-inventing the wheel - a lot of this stuff exists in the pbmplus
code - all they would have to do is yank out the appropriate modules and
and make a few mods.

>
>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! :-)
>

Or at least documented - I found out by watching my drive light come on.

Bob Malay
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Subject: Re: GIF/RAW/RCS/SPC ETC.
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