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From: Joseph P. Hillenburg (joseph@valnet.UUCP)
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Subject: Re: IFF picture viewers ...
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Date: 30 Aug 90 20:03:19 GMT
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ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery) writes:

> rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
> 
> >Just a quick question ....
> >	I know that there are GIF viewers that will switch to interlace and
> >compress a picture horizontally to try to show as much of the picture.  Are
> >there any IFF viewers that can do the same, particularly the horizontal
> >compression?
> 
> Again, I'll briefly plug Mostra, as far as I know THE best IFF pic displayer
> for the Amiga (and shareware, at that!). It will allow you to set any screen
> attributes you like with command line options, so you can at least compress
> pictures vertically by forcing interlace (assuming they weren't laced before)
> As for horizontal, no, I don't know any IFF displayers which will do that,
> and it would be a real nice feature. How 'bout it, someone?
> 
> >                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@ICS.UCI.EDU)
> >Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 a poor Grad student at the
> >In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
> >Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.


UM...I beg to differ. SuperView 3.0 is the best one I know of. It can do 
everything Mostra can do, plus do everything else you said (Like control 
the video mode, and amount of colors, and resolution. Ex: You can take a 
640x400 16 color image and show it as a 320x200 HAM scrolling 
superbitmap. I hear that SuperView IV is due out soon. Is this true? 
Mr. Grothe? Are you on the net? Can you confirm this?

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