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From: dnwiebe@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Dan N Wiebe)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: DPaint II vs HAM vs ILBM
Message-ID: <8912011549.AA03210@procyon.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 15:49:15 GMT
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	I've got some .GIF images I'm interested in converting into a format
compatible with DeluxePaint II (MS-DOS) for a friend so that she can edit them.
Saved DPaint II files have an extension of .LBM; therefore, I thought perhaps
their format was ILBM.  I used PBMPLUS to convert the 256-color .GIFs to
ILBM format (no problems, except that ppmtoilbm told me it was creating a HAM
file because my picture had more than 32 colors) and shipped them over to my
friend.  When she loaded them into DeluxePaint II, we could see that the image
was correct, but the palette was all wrong (it was the default palette).
Apparently either the palette of the original .GIF file didn't get stored in
the .LBM file, or DPaint II couldn't read it from the .LBM file.
	Has anyone else had this sort of problem?  Any ideas for a fix?  Should
I go about it an entirely different way?
	Thanks for any help...

Dan Wiebe
dnw@rsch.oclc.org (preferred)
dnwiebe@cis.ohio-state.edu (acceptable)


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