Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!
From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Gif -> IFF
Keywords: IBM GIF to AMIGA IFF
Message-ID: <2379@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 9 Dec 90 10:08:50 GMT
Lines: 30
Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips>
To: van-bc!rnews

In <10045@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes:
>In article <2368@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>>Though there is at least one GIF to IFF convertor, it is kludgy and not at all
>>easy to use, requiring a couple of steps and intermediate files.
>
>I don't know which gif->iff converter you're talking about, but there is
>  one that is very good and not at all kludgy.  It's called hamsharp, is 
>  available at better ftp sites everywhere, and produces spectacular results.
>
>It takes a little while (about 5-6 minutes for a big 256 color gif) but 
>  produces HAM output that is virtually fringe-free, especially when 
>  you compare the output with a gif viewer like hamgif.  

Great! I'll have a look for it. I have never been impressed by GIF, and I guess
it's been due to the viewers.

One thing... does it bother with more than 256 colours if there are more in the
picture? All previous GIF tools I have seen limit themselves to 256 colours,
fine for the IBM/Mac crowd, but just not good enough for other machines.

-larry

--
The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|   //   Larry Phillips                                                 |
| \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips |
|        COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322  -or-  76703.4322@compuserve.com        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+