On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:04:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:30:00 +0700, Thomas Tabler wrote:
>> Dear List: >> Does anyone know anything about LVIEW for DOS or Windows, and >> are there some kind of programs out there that run on pure DOS that >> can resize the scale of a BMP file. My brother-in-law installed >> Ghostscript for DOS on his Windoze machine and is sending me huge >> BMP files. I sent him BMP2GIF.exe from R. Green's site but he says >> he doesn't want to use it and suggested other freeware file viewers >> or converters. Paintshop Pro for DOS seems inaccessible from my >> browser. > Hi Thomas: I dont know anything about lview, but I use Graphics Workshop for DOS and find it very satisfactory except for RBG infinite colour JPEG files which I have to use Arachne7.01 to convert to BMP files. The good thing about GWSDOS is that it will present quite large pictures and uses memory intelligently. Also it has a range of clever scaling, toning, format translation and dithering functions. I regularly use it to reduce 4 meg micro$oft files to 40 K GIF files! Kali
