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From: raz@kilowatt.uucp (Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF Pictures
Summary: It's in the works.
Keywords: picture iff sun
Message-ID: <33748@kilowatt.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 89 19:22:03 GMT
References: <1765@orion.cf.uci.edu> <445@antares.UUCP>
Reply-To: raz@sun.UUCP (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <445@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes:
)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.

If you get the NEW version of iff2sun, there is an option on the command line 
to do color pictures. ie: iff2sun -c infile outfile. The -c tells iff2sun to
preserve the Amiga color table and stuff it into the Sun output file.

)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.)

PixMate comes fairly close (64 colors in half-bright). I am currently adding
half-bright support to iff2sun but I am also looking at doing a conversion
from HAM to 256 colors. As soon as I figure out how that is ;-)

)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.

Bob has the NEW version of iff2sun. If it's really that important for you to
have the color version you can either bug Bob, or email me for my current
copy. If you wait a few days I'll have half-bright support included and 
debugged.

-- 
Steve -Raz- Berry      Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin!
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