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From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DeluxePaint III and IFF
Summary: Problems here too.
Keywords: IFF DPIII
Message-ID: <2824@mibte.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 16:47:18 GMT
References: <1419@dover.sps.mot.com> <110824@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <10102@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <10102@polya.Stanford.EDU>, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>> 	The problem that you are seeing is the new format of Dpaint
>> III images. In all of the older IFF files that I was able to take a
>> look at, all of the chunks (ILBM CAMG BODY etc..) were of an even
>> size. EA decided in it's infinite wisdom, and to my chargin, to allow
>> chunks of odd sizes. This screwed up my primitive IFF parsing so that
>> iff2sun would probably only work half of the time (yech).
> 
> No!  Someone tell me this isn't true.  First, someone verify that
> Dpaint III does generate BROKEN IFF files in this manner.  Second,
> where and when was the standard `revised'?  I think this is a bug in
> Dpaint III if they are really doing this, and I will be seriously
> pissed if they've made this change . . .
> 
> -tom

I have been using a PD program BrushIcon (not Brush2Icon) to
convert DPaint brushes to Icons.  Since I have DPaint III the
conversion no longer works.  I can load a DPaint III brush into
DPaint II, re-save it and get a convertable brush.

Does anybody know of a Brush to Icon program that will work with
DPaint III brushes?  I have Brush2Icon and it works with DPaint
III but only produces tool icons.
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