Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!grdetil From: grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Are Icon and Scene broken? Keywords: Icon, Scene, Image processing, color Message-ID: <1991Jun20.205305.1194@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 20 Jun 91 20:53:05 GMT References: <1991Jun19.054506.23071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 23 In <1991Jun19.054506.23071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> windemut@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Andreas Windemuth) writes: >I spent a whole evening trying to enlarge a 12-bit tiff color >image saved from GifView2. No way. >Scene seems to crash at the merest mentioning of 12-bit color, >and Icon steadfastly crashes on any attempt to save an Image to either >tiff or eps. >Is this only happening to me? Am I missing something? >Are there fixed versions of these programs? I recently tried to use Icon to grab images from the Previewer window, edit them, and save them as directory icons. Icon crashed on me at least four times, at various stages, taking the Workspace Manager down with it on one occasion. I gave up and grabbed the old Icon program from my old 1.0a software release disk. (BTW, I'm running a monochrome 040 cube now.) I don't know what NeXT did to Icon on 2.0, but it seems hopelessly broken. -- Gilles Detillieux Spinal Cord Research Centre or Dept. of Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)788-6766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 (Canada) Fax: (204)786-0932