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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Can anyone answer these Questions?
Message-ID: <8343@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 20 Aug 89 23:57:39 GMT
References: <840@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <17406@bellcore.bellcore.com> <3707@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <3707@internal.Apple.COM> wrs@apple.com (Walter Smith) writes:
>I'm happy to say that Bill Atkinson already implemented a bitmap-shrinking 
>algorithm many years ago, and it's sitting there in CopyBits waiting for 
>you.  Just make the source and destination rectangles for CopyBits 
>different sizes.

And then look at the incredibly ugly screen picture.  Unless, of
course, there's a shrinkage of about 50% or greater, in which case the
bitmap will have been turned solid black.  Comes from trying to
preserve the black dots.  It's not a particularly useful feature of
CopyBits, sorry.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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