Thanks Scott (x2),
That takes some of unknowns out of the equation. Up until now I have never
run into palette problems in MC...must have been the card.
Blair Moxon
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>>All ways should be equally "safe". I'd recommend using GIF
>>compression for most things, though, because it produces the
smallest
>>files. The only exception would be to use JPEG for photos.
>>The colors are retained as they were specified in the original
images.
>>The data in uncompressed formats (BMP, XWD, PBM/PGM/PPM) are
>>compressed using the built-in RLE compressor used for paint images
and
>>import snapshot, but the colormaps are unmodified.
>>Your problems are almost certainly due to a buggy driver in the
>>>graphics card, and there's nothing you can do about that other
than
>>the standard "upgrade the driver" and "turn off acceleration"
>>suggestions. Furthermore, color palettes are only a problem on
8-bit
>>color depth systems. The translations for 16 and 24/32 bit depths
are
>>fixed and virtually trouble free on all platforms. On 8 bit
systems,
>>the key to success with MetaCard is to remap all of your images to
the
>>same color palette. I recommend the "Netscape 216" colormap for
most
>>things, because it's pretty good and less likely to conflict with
>>colors used by other applications like Web browsers.
> >> Regards,
> >> Scott
>
>
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