Art Campbell wrote: > Color list? You mean like FM's defined colors? > I don't think so. We're talking digital photographs here, > with millions of colors. > The 8-bit limitation is just the bit depth of the file. FM > doesn't do anything at all with the colors of graphics and > the colors it defines.... it's a graphic file format attribute.
Nope, not millions of colors -- millions of _possible_ colors. But each 8-bit graphic contains only 2^8, or 256, unique colors -- a palette of 256 defined RGB colors, all of which are added to your FM color list like this: RGB 000, 000, 136 RGB 000, 082, 044 RGB 056, 188, 000 So Grant is right. Since each new 8-bit PNG contains its own palette of 256 unique colors, you can end up with hundreds -- even thousands -- of new colors in your FM doc. Go ahead, select View > Color > Definitions, and then look at the Name list. Since your graphics started life as photos, I'm surprised that the 256-color limit isn't a problem, but then I don't know what they're pictures of. I don't understand your original crash problem, or how the photos ended up being 16-bit color (are you sure?), or what "interpolated to size" means. But you might try saving them as 24-bit color, which is more standard. You might also try significantly reducing the dpi. I'm no expert, but 300 dpi for a photo seems excessive. IIRC, after you remove the 8-bit PNGs, saving the doc as MIF will get rid of all the RGB color definitions. Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
