Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cadence!acae037!eversole From: eversole@acae037.cadence.com (Richard Eversole; x6239) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: vga palette (24bit->8bit) Message-ID: <1991Jan31.183836.23898@cadence.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 18:38:36 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cadence.com (USENET News) Reply-To: eversole@acae037.cadence.com (Richard Eversole; x6239) Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Lines: 35 What is the format for the 24-bit map ? Are you familiar with pbmplus ? It is a PD graphics file format translator that runs on Unix platforms. One of the utilities is ppmquant, which can quantize a pixel map into a limited set of colors. Not perfect but them changing 24-bit map into 256 colors is not likely to be perfect. Pbmplus supports many input & output formats. Check the alt.graphics.pixutils to find out where the latest version is. pbmplus is in a Beta test cycle right now for the latest release -- ===================================================================== eversole@cadence.com Live long and prosper ! ========================================================================== ------------- / ---------- / / / -------- / / ____ ------ ____ _____ ____ _____ ------ / / / / \ /\ | \ | |\ | / \ | ---- / / / / | / \ | | |__ | \ | | |__ -- / / / / / | /----\ | | | | \ | | | / / / / / / / \____/ / \ |___/ |____ | \| \____/ |____ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ==========================================================================