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From: clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: ColorDesk and PICT images problem.
Message-ID: <228@claris.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 07:50:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.193116.19499@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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alfredo@cca.PUE.UDLAP.MX (Alfredo de Regil) writes:
>Usually I use Giffer (1.0) to convert the GIF graphics I download in UNIX to
>the PICT format that ColorDesk requires. When I inspect these PICT images 
>Giffer display it identical but when I load it from ColorDesk they look
>distortioned!

What is happening is that the picture you converted has a different color table
than the standard system color table. Giffer changes the table to display the
image correctly while ColorDesk does not. DeskPicture (part of the Now
Utilities commercial package) does the same things as ColorDesk plus additional
features like supporting custom color tables and custom scalings.

--Clay
(author of DeskPicture)
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