Hello, I'm using tightVNC 1.2.2, accessing solaris8 from WinME. Our Sun administrator recently upgraded from Acrobat Reader 4.0 to 5.0. Reader warns that it doesnt' have enough colors, starts up in grayscale, and displays the document a pitch black.
According to Reader's README, Reader's warning is expected if invoked by netscape because netscape doesn't "grab" enough colors for Reader. I'm not invoking it from netscape. Furthermore, the default visual for TightVNC is 8-bit true-color. The README is a bit confusing here because it says the problem occurs when the visual is 8 planes or less, but then it attributes the problem to netscape not grabbing enough colors, and suggests starting acroread first. That's too different causes. The problem does not occur if I start up the VNC server as pseudocolor. But it's not very convenient to startup up a VNC desktop everytime just to use Reader. I tried using 9-bits color depth, in case there was anything to the README story, but that didn't help either. Any ideas? I know that I don't understand the color alottment scheme of VNC very well. I did play around with it for a good long time in the past, trying to find a good color scheme for the syntax enabled source code viewing of gvim. What I found is that when, say, 2 bits are allotted to one of RGB, I don't really get 4 levels of that color (which is what I thought I would get). I seem to recall that the number of colors was about half what I would expect, so a bit is lost for each color somewhere. This is on a TFT screen, so there might be issues of linearity and sensitivty there; I'm not familiar with that technology. Thanks for any ideas. Fred P.S. Another way to solve the Reader 5.0 problem is to make it work the way 4.0 did. Never had a problem with colors in 4.0. Is there a way to do this? -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
