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From: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Displaying GIF files on desktop using custom palette
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Date: 24 Aug 90 19:50:48 GMT
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Organization: Before Computing, Phoenix, Arizona USA
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tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik) writes:

> However, I'm unable to use the picture file's custom palette.
> This limits the quality of the pictures that I wish to display.
> Either 'DeskPict' is unable to recognise the picture's custom palette,
> or the custom palette is being lost in the GIF to PICT conversion.

I believe the problem is that DeskPict will only use the System palette.
I have no more information that, but for some reason I recall that as a
limitation of DeskPict.

John