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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: dithering color picts to B/W
Summary: You want GIFConverter 2.2.6
Message-ID: <5752@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 91 18:12:26 GMT
References: <3066@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> <1991Apr25.233753.28666@oswego.oswego.edu> <1991Apr29.172142.330@otago.ac.nz>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991Apr29.172142.330@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>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 .
>
>If you are working with GIF files, you can use QuickGIF by
>AmariliSoft (sp?), which is shareware. You should find it at most
>FTP sites - it was at sumex last time I looked. Is has three
>different dithering methods, which seem to be quite good.

Well, since the poster said that he's using PICT files, I don't think QuickGIF
is going to do the job.  However, GIFConverter (current version is 2.2.6) will
dither 8-bit color PICTS (and is supposed to do 24-bit, although I haven't
tried it).  GIFConverter is available from Sumex, and is $40 shareware.

Hope this helps,
--Mike