Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!burtonl
From: burtonl@cognos.UUCP (Burton Leathers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS PALETTES
Message-ID: <9714@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 91 11:43:38 GMT
References: <9106050152.AA18036@apple.com>
Reply-To: burtonl@cognos.UUCP (Burton Leathers)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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The point has been made that the GS 320/640 mode default palettes
are strange. I do not find them so. I frequently produce colour
graphics using AWGS graphics which operates in 640 mode using
the dithered colours. These look good on the screen but print
poorly on the Imagewriter on which dithering is not nearly so
effective. My workaround is to export the image in APF and then
to import it to Minipaint (plug!). Minipaint allows me to
shift from 640 to 320 by simply rechunking the pixel bits and
using the 320 default palette. Amazingly, this results in
colours which are almost identical to the 640 mode dithered
colours. The Imagewriter output is then much better.

From my experience, the palette colours are quite rationale
and allow me to work in the best of both worlds.

Burton
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