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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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Subject: Re: GIF to BMP?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.213111.28359@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 21:31:11 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.131412.20733@kth.se> <1991Mar21.065402.11594@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar21.182850.8025@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Mar21.182850.8025@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) writes:
>I have been using PICLAB to convert large GIF's to BMP's.  This's
>what I do:
>
>	1. Run PICLAB and load the GIF
>	2. UNMAP
>	3. set PALETTE 16
>	4. PLOAD *windows-palette-file*
>
>		*note: the windows palette file is just a 16-line file
>			   containing the RGB values of the windows palette.
>
>	5. MAP
>	6. Save the new GIF
>
>The new GIF will be a 16-color picture with the WIndows palette,
>which you can use Grafworks (GWS) to convert into BMP format.  I
>usually found that the dithering PICLAB performs make the resulting
>BMP look much better.  With color pictures, though, the Windows
>palette is completely inadequate.  I usually ended up using only
>the four gray colors and convert the color GIF into a black & white
>BMP.
>

An even easier way is to get wingif from cica. Load the file in (it understands
GIF), then save the file selecting .BMP as the output file type.

Very easy, works for me.

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