> 1. Have not had any luck in getting any images on my unit to convert
> with anything better than 8-bit color. I thought I had seen in
> older release notes about 16-bit color being supported. Was this
> only under linux or should this work with the Win98 converter, too?
16-bit works (currently) with PIL. Not sure if Netpbm2 supports this
as a native format yet. Bill?
> 2. Some images cause a crash and lockup on my m505 when trying
> to open them in the viewer.
Do these images exceed the size length restriction on images?
Perhaps a viewer upgrade is in order, I recall a memory leak fix that Mike
did that may have affected this.
> 3. Wondering if there was going to be support for links that are
> directly to images and not just to html pages with images.
I do this now, and have for quite some time, without any problems,
as follows:
<a href="someImage.png"><img src="someImage.png"></a>
Works like a charm.
> 4. I've seen a *few* pictures on my unit that are larger than the
> palm screen and allowed panning, but for the most part, the page
> with these large images on them do not open at all without
> crashing, even though the jpg data is fairly small (same problem
> as number 2 above?).
Remember the size needed to uncompress the images. You know those
Word documents you spool to the printer? They may be 1 meg on disk, but when
spooled to the printer, they're 10+ megs or more when converted to
postscript and dithered and so on. Here's one of Mike's original messages:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00237.html
Hope that helps.
/d
