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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: How to interpret DPPS chunk
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Date: 16 Nov 89 18:36:55 GMT
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In article <715@crash.cts.com> dbwhite@pro-realm.cts.com (David White) writes:
>How does one interpret a DPPS chunk?  I.E. what is it's structure and
>meaning?  It didn't seem to be described in the 1988 IFF specs on FF185...

I don't know the structure, but it is probably very easy to guess
once you know what is in it.  DPPS is Deluxe Paint Page Size.
DPaint III crashes if you have a large picture without this hunk and
you don't set the page size to the right size the first time.
I find it very annoying to have to fall back to DP-II to find out
how big some of my images are so that they can be reloaded and
resaved with DP-III. DPPS is probably just two shorts or something.

On a slightly different topic, is it possible to control the compression
mode that DPaint uses?  I have a few uncompressed images that I would
like to save compressed, but DP seems to use the same compression mode.
I would also like to be able to save them uncompressed for ease of kludge-
programs I may write.  Thanks!   -- Darren