Hi Muthu, On 2011-12-05 at 18:06 +0530, Muthu Subramanian K wrote:
> Ah...that didn't strike me...because I assumed it is > again converted back to 8bit by shifting back...which is the case as > well in some functions e.g. GetColor()...but then it doesn't seem to > matter so much as much as for up-sampling. > Thank you for the clarifications. > Yes, 65535/255 or 0xFFFF/0xFF might help. Why shifting right to convert to 8bit is the right inverse operation: a*257 == (a << 8) + a Ie. - you are just throwing away the additional "+a" that you've introduced to fill the color space nicely. Regards, Kendy _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
