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From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (Jerry D Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: color startup and backdrop screens for MacII
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Date: 29 May 89 02:27:16 GMT
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Dave Platt writes..
| Here's my dream: a backdrop-INIT that would take a PICT file containing
|arbitrary colors, and would dither it into a near-equivalent image using
|only the system-palette colors.

I have noticed that in 8-bit quickdraw, pictures with less then 256 colors keep
all their original colors when used as a backdrop.  Perhaps a utility that 
reduces from 256 to 128 might be enough?

--
Jerry Whitnell                    Several Species of Small Furry
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com          Animals Gathered Together in a
..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell   Cave and Grooving with a PICT.
                                  -- Pink Floyd