On 15-Jul-2002 Marco Fioretti wrote: > FYI, this is the conclusion of the story. Any comment/explanation/ > further trick arer appreciated, as I confess I don't understand > completely why the solution below works. >
It sounds like FrameMaker was designed for Solaris where the X server is always running in 24bit mode. Simply having someone change the X setup on your machine so it ran in 24 instead of 16bpp mode would have fixed this. An X developer must support each color depth on their own or via the toolkit. Applications which handle graphics often took this time on only bit depth because of the work involved. Raster's imlib that E uses has a substantial chunk of code which internally maps everything to 24 bit then renders it out in the actual bit depth of the server.
