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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: dithering color picts to B/W
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.125355.23623@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 25 Apr 91 12:53:55 GMT
References: <3066@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
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In article <3066@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:
>I'm looking for an app which would allow me to dither 8 bit color picts
>into 1 bit B/W picts . I'm using an SE/30 and need to be able
>to view color picts and print them on my deskwriter.

Karl, check out GIFConverter 2.2.6.  It's main function is a GIF
viewer/editor, but it does an excellent job with PICT/PICT2/TIFF images
as well.  It has adjustable dithering.  Shareware $40.

There was also a recent blurb in MacWeek for a new RDEV (printer driver)
that will dither color images for printing on the ImageWriter II.  There
is a demo version floating around the BBS systems here in the Twin
Cities, and (of course) I can't remember it's name!  It worked
adequately well on my IW II, and if you have a color ribbon, it is
supposed to allow 32,000 colors via dithering.  I don't know if it would
work on the DeskWriter or not.

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