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From: ART100@PSUVM.BITNET (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Diagonal GIF files (repost with clarification)
Message-ID: <74654ART100@PSUVM>
Date: 7 Mar 89 17:06:26 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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Now for a new question: what would make a GIF file appear slanted? For example,
suppose the picture is supposed to be a box:

   +---------+
   |         |
   |         |
   |         |
   +---------+

but it comes out thus:

      +----------+
                //
              //
            //
      -----++----

Actually the effect is more pronounced than that, but that's the idea.
None of the image is lost, but it's wrapped around!

It only happens with a FEW gif's, maybe 3 I've seen so far,
and these are all from different sites but the rest from
those places came out ok.

I'm using gif2ras to convert gif's to sun rasterfiles, then using
screenload to view the files. I don't think it's a problem with the
raster files since the border is square, just the information
in the actual gif file is diagonal!

Any ideas, or fixes?

Andy

art100@psuvm.bitnet / a1t@ecl.psu.edu