Re: gs2.4 bad dithering on Sun SPARC II 8bit cg6

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From: Anthony A. Datri
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 16:11

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>I have been having some trouble with vastly sub-optmial dithering from
>gs on 24bit color images to 8 bit displays. The symptoms are mostly
>heavy banding and under-utilization of availiable colors.

>What's the deal? Is this a known bug?

If you're willing to better the X11 driver, I'm sure that ghostscript would
be happy to incorporate your code.  2.4 does a little better with colors than
2.3 does, and I'd say that it does at least as well as any PostScript printer
that I've seen.
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Subject: Re: gs2.4 bad dithering on Sun SPARC II 8bit cg6
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