Re: NTLK Grayscale Pics in NewtonPress

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 11:08:08 EST


"Michael J. Hussmann" wrote:

> Kenny Song (kensong@pc.jaring.my) wrote:
>
> > Are you talking Mac, Michael? Because I have always converted from my
> > Powerbook which have ALWAYS been set to thousands or millions of colors
> > and they turn up just fine. I use photoshop to save them as greyscale PICT
> > set to 4 bit depth.
>
> Hi Kenny,
>
> yes, I'm talking about the Mac version. Whenever I had tried to include
> grayscale pics in NewtonPress (using Photoshop, Graphicsconverter, or
> ColorIt), they did never look right, in Newton Press as well as on the
> Newton. Then someone, somewhere, mentioned that the monitor depth should
> be reduced to 8 bit, and now it works like a charm. This is on a Umax
> Pulsar with a Formac Proformance lite 80 graphics card, normally set to
> millions of colors.

That's a bit odd since I'm using a B&W with the stock Rage128 in million of
colors and never had any problem with pasted pictures from PhotoShop 4 LE.

-Laurent.
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