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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF Pictures
Summary: Want IFF to color Sun rasterfile
Keywords: picture iff sun
Message-ID: <445@antares.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 02:07:54 GMT
References: <1765@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <1765@orion.cf.uci.edu> echarne@orion.cf.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
>   Now that I have IFF2Sun, I am *very* intersted in getting good iff pictures
>   that do not use half-brite, or HAM so that I can convert them to X-11
>   bitmaps. (Makes for a very nice background)

Likewise, I have some very nice backgrounds that started out as 576x450
DigiView hi-res (16 shade monochrome) IFF pictures, got converted to 8-bit
raster files using IFF2SUN, and then to dithered b&w using rastfilter8to1.
They look great on a b&w Sun 3/50, but lousy on a color 3/60.

Wanted: A program that runs on the Amiga and converts an arbitrary HAM IFF
picture to a HAM IFF file that uses 256 or fewer different colors.  (I want
it to stay in HAM IFF format so that it can be touched up on the Amiga and
256 colors to be shown on other systems.)

Also Wanted: A program that runs on a Sun and converts IFF files to raster
files *with colormap*.  Bob Page says there are several (an I'm sure there
are), but I found no mention in the Fish disk listing or the 
comp.sources.amiga index.

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