On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
Much as I hate top-posting, I'll do it this once.
I believe this isn't so much the PNG > BMP converter
that's used as it is a shortcoming of Arachne to be
able to only render certain kinds of BMP images.
(note the cc to bugs and subject change)
- Steve
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> Hi to all,
> I downloaded the graph Arachne 1.61 and had 96515718.png 3524 in cache.
> Arachne converted this to 96515718.bmp 75718
> Indeed the graph is skewed... but viewed Ok with Picture View.
> With PV I converted this to 96515718.gif 5191
>
> Why Arachne skewed the .bmp and PV is not... don't know.
>
> The .gif is in the attachment.
>
> CU, Bastiaan
>
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>
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> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:03:15 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > Using Linux Arachne 4.1.66, the uptime graph at
> >> > http://www.netcraft.com/whats?host=wizard.dyndns.org
> >> > only shows a black box where the graph should be.
> >> > Right-click it, reload, and then back-arrow, and
> >> > now it's displayed as a red box.
>
> >> > - Steve (also wondering if DOS A1.70 can see this graph)
>
> >> With DOS 1.70, rev. 3 the graph is displayed, but it is
> >> rendered very poorly. I would easily recognize it as a
> >> graph even if nobody told me it is a graph, but I cannot
> >> make any sense out of it. It is 100% meaningless to me
> >> except for the fact that it is recognizable as a graph.
>
> > Well, this is how it looks in Netscape 4.76:
> > http://wizard.dyndns.org/stackman/uptime.png
> > (xv-created png which works fine in Arachne)
>
> >> There are buttons you can click on labeled
> >> "DISPLAY OPTIONS" and "RE-DISPLAY GRAPH". The appearance
> >> of the graph doesn't change no matter what I select for
> >> "DISPLAY OPTIONS". Clicking on "RE-DISPLAY GRAPH" will
> >> not result in any change in the way the graph is displayed.
>
> > Yes, those options are badly labled. They actually relate
> > to the numbers in the tables below the graph, specifically
> > the moving average values, and have no effect whatsoever
> > on the appearance of the graph... not this early in the
> > game at least.
>
> > Although netcraft gives a nice graph and report,
> > it lags a couple of days. Realtime uptime is at
> > http://wizard.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/uptime.cgi ;-)
>
> > - Steve
