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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Lumena .PIX format
Summary: It *is* same as .TGA
Message-ID: <498@octopus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 04:52:12 GMT
References: <761@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <14983@cup.portal.com> <12613@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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In article <12613@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
>In article <14983@cup.portal.com> Don_A_Corbitt@cup.portal.com writes:
>>Lumena's .PIX files are the same as Truevision's .TGA files.
>
>WRONG!  Lumena can save in the TGA format, but you must select it 
>specifically, the .PIX format is a different format.

WRONG! the .PIX format IS THE SAME as .TGA format. Else why would my
Targa output driver program (I wrote it) be able to read .PIX files
without any trouble, ever?

Now it is true that Lumena tends to save files that are 512x480, and
overscanned, but the Targa file format says nothing about how big an
image can be. Or whether it is overscanned or not. In fact, programs that
use the Vista board, or handle scanned-in images, tend to make HUGE 'targa'
files. I recently played with a 10MB 'targa' file (around 2Kx1300 32bit
pixels) for the most recent version of my driver. (Boy, rotating an image
that big isn't much fun on a PC :-(   )

Pete
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