Has anyone hacked around with the image conversion utilities called by the Plucker 
parse routines?

I got better results with detailed images (comics) that I wanted to scale down to fit 
into the 160 vertical pixels of the Palm by using the following in plucker.ini (in the 
[WINDOWS] section for my setup):

convert_program_parameter= -geometry 500x160 -sharpen 10x10 %input% bmp:%output%

This forces the ImageMagick convert.exe program to scale down and darken the lines 
that are antialiased, such as the text captions in the comics that would normally come 
out too thin/light to be readable, and does this without darkening broad gray areas.  
From what I can tell, the bmp2tbmp program normally does the scaling after convert.exe 
runs (twice, at normal and maxwidth scales, for images that are larger than the 
screen) and is sophisticated enought not to dither images, but doesn't offer the same 
control over antialiasing and contrast that the ImageMagick utility does.

The partial solution above isn't good in the general case, though, since other inline 
images that are smaller than a full page are unnaturally scaled up, and images that 
are too tall will always be scaled to 160 vertical, etc...  Seems like ImageParser.py 
would need to be hacked up considerably to support a more general solution.

Regards,
Rob Grace
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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