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From: churritz@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Skito)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Cropping/Expanding pics, CorelDraw doesn't work
Message-ID: <26f68e00.324d@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 18 Sep 90 21:13:36 GMT
Reply-To: churritz@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Skito)
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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Is there any software, ftp or otherwise, that can enable a conversion
from a PCX file that is very large (larger than the screen) to a
windows compatible bitmap that shows the entire shrunken PCX full
screen.

Attempting to do this in CorelDraw doesn't work well.  Here's the
process I think should work:

I have a large format PCX file.  I import the file.  Shrink it down
on the desk top.  Go PageSetup and shrink the page to a size small
enought to fit on an 640x480 bitmap.  Export as pcx then convert to
bmp with paintbrush.

This gives me a bmp file that doesn't seem to shrunken at all and has
obnoxious white borders that have nothing to do with the picture.

Has anyone shrunken a pcx file and saved it without the borders?

-skito