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From: meekins@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins)
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Subject: Re: 3200 -> gif
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Date: 9 May 91 02:20:51 GMT
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In article <48664@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) writes:
>In article <118375@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> meekins@gryphon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins) writes:
>
>Have you actually seen SuperConvert 3.0? I ask since the guy from
>Seven Hills has repeatedly stated on America Online that SC 3.0 _does_
>have GIF conversion. Jason was going to leave it out, but he finally
>got some kind of deal and SC now does GIF.
>

As mentioned previously. I blew it, since I've only seen the beta version.

>The color mapping is the _only_ thing I like about SHRConvert 2.1...
>it makes OK looking dithered 16 color pics out of 256 color GIFs
>(provided they're small enough). Also, I think SuperConvert is limited
>to 640x400 pics (I think that's 640 mode, but I'm not sure), which is
>pretty small. It can't even load all of a 640x480 pic :-( I agree with
>Unknown; Lord High Giffer looks very promising. Just the other day, I
>loaded a 1xxx by something GIF with no problems at all (it was
>converted from a grayscale TIFF, and you know how big those 300 dpi
>scans are!) Any new betas yet, Todd? I've still got the seed
>version...
>

LHG does sound great, but I'm sure its speed will descrease once Todd
adds some real fancy color mapping. But, I'm positive it will still be 
quite a bit more quicker than SC.

Also, the main question that started this feed was whether there were
any programs that would store a 3200 as a GIF. I don't know for a fact,
but I suspect the The Graphics Exchange can do it. Maybe someone who
has a copy can verify this.

-Tim

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