On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Claude Mourier 00 wrote:
> A stated in the last QL2D, new release of Photon (from Dave Westbury) as
> found on DJ's web page is fast (for QL hardware) : on QPC2 it takes less
> than 20seconds to display a 200k file.
On my Q40 it takes roughly 4 seconds. Good work, Dave! You're photon is
now faster than pqiv (it takes 6 secondes for a 200k jpeg). BTW, do you
consider the RGB0 bit of Qx0 screen layout? This may take some time for
pqiv to calculate.
>Compared (not a criticism) to PhotoQL
> v0.18 (from Roberto Porro) found on Thierry Godegroy'site it is 5 or 6 time
> faster : but PhotoQL is only v0.18 and supports too GIF, PNG, PCX and BMP
> files (not my favourite : TIFF ;-(!
pqiv supports TIFF, but you need a Q40 or Q60.
> With this two pieces of software we can at least see what can be done with
> GD2 !
> It would be nice if others software can take advantage of such tools so that
> work is not done twice
>
> Claude
Claus
