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From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:23 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] JPG question
Geoff Wicks wrote:
I have a question to ask to which I should already know the answer, but
unfortunately do not.
Someone has sent me an early version of a program to display JPG images
on a GD2 QL system.
Has this been done before and, if so, by whom?
From what I know:
1. Photon, by Dave Westbury (JPG only)
2. Photo-QL, by Roberto Porro (BMP/GIF/JPG/PCX/TGA/PNG/PIC)
3. PQIV by Claus Graf. (PCX, PNG, PIC, TIFF, GIF and JPEG - standard
version works only on Q40/Q60 but a patch by Marcel Kilgus allows it to
save in QL mode 32 QPC/QXL format)
Would be interesting if the new viewer could be accessed from other
programs in a direct mode like Photon, e.g.
EX new_viewer;"input.jpg" to view and EX new_viewer;"input.jpg output.file
[list of options]"
this would make it available also via FileInfo 2, and any new QL graphical
software could use it to load/save JPG files.
Thanks for this information and also to Bob for his reply. I should have
known about Photon because it is quite an old program that I have tried it
in the past, but there are so many graphics formats and I had forgotten
which was supported.
The person in question is a skilled programmer, but very much a "loner" who
is not always aware of developments in the QL community. His program is in a
very early stage of development, but I have done some testing and it works
with all JPGs I have tried, although some needed resizing. He is also trying
to write a detailed graphics program for GD2 systems, and that is the reason
he tackled the JPG problem, but at the moment I am not quite sure what he
wants me to do with them,
Best Wishes,
Geoff
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