On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Multiple standards mean some viewers will not see some BMP formats,
> for instance, the BMPs that Arachne can't see:
> http://wizard.dyndns.org/997967481.zbm
>
> Arachne can SEE it fine - but she won't show it because it's a 32bit BMP.
> I changed the bits/pixel designation to 24 and then I could see something
> - not correctly, of course, because Arachne wasn't skipping every 4th
> useless byte. C'mon now. 24 bits/pixel is all that are going to get used.
That was EXACTLY my point! There are too many non-standard
BMP formats. According to whatever "standard" I could find
there's no such thing as a 16-bit BMP, nor a 32-bit BMP.
> BTW, if it's any consolation I made some 16 bit (Hicolor) BMPs with
> Arachne and tested them in 8 bit mode. Arachne displays them but the
> colors aren't properly reduced. They looked pretty poor.
Yet, we now have examples of both, don't we.
Again, I say BMP is not a good format for screen dump,
and something else should be used... PPM might be a good
candidate. Then you can have invent the ZPM format instead.
;-)
- Steve (who would even rather see *.PPM.BZ2 ;)
