Hi List,

I am very sorry not to be able to give full support to solving the
remaining problems in 1.71UE.
My mother just died and attention is drwn to other subjects now...
besides I only have the laptop here with 1.61 still doing an excellent
job.

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>> There is a problem with black and white BMP-images => red box.
>> This problem exists in all Arachne versions as far as I know.

>> Would it be possible to convert BMP to GIF in Arachne... without an
>> external program? Than this problem would also been solved.

> No it would not be paosible without an external program.
> (it would also require a re-write of the code to do anything with
> local BMPs other than to view them 'directly')

I did try to place bitmap.exe into Arache to view all bmp's directly...
but that does not work. Bitmap.exe views all bmp's, also 2 color
black&white.


> However, for 'remote' BMPs, this will do the job.

> image/bmp >GIF|cjpeg.exe -colors 256 $1 -outfile bmp2gif.jpg
> | djpeg.exe -colors 256 bmp2gif.jpg>$2

> image/x-bitmap >GIF|cjpeg.exe -colors 256 $1 -outfile bmp2gif.jpg
> | djpeg.exe -colors 256 bmp2gif.jpg>$2

> We need both lines because some sites send content-type image/bmp while
> others send image/x-bitmap

> But I'm sorry to say that this will not work with those 2 color BMPs
> (cjpeg only works with 8 bit and 24bit BMP files)

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A long time ago we had a discussion about b&w bmp's and this seems
insolvable without an external viewer. Probably for most of us this is a
very minor problem... for me the problem often occurs because my drawing
diagrams program exports in .bmp 2 color.

Regards, Bastiaan


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