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#187479From: John GallantAug 27, 1995 9:57 AM

Is it possible to save as an 8-bit .BMP in Animator Pro? Is there any plan to support the new .PNG format? John G.

#187482From: Kyle J. McKisicAug 27, 1995 10:13 AM

John, yes, you can save an image in AniPro as a 8-bit bmp file. Just right-click on the 'picture' button and it will give you a list of file extensions, select BMP and you're on your way. re: PNG – I'm not familiar with this format, nor have I heard of any plans to support it. -Kyle

#187611From: John GallantAug 28, 1995 7:15 AM

Kyle, Saving in Animator _Studio_ as a .BMP seems to force a 24-bit file to be created, not an 8-bit file. PNG is a new standard created by people in the graphics industry to be an open format to replace .GIF. Info is available in the Graphics (?) forum. An article on the standard appeared in Dr. Dobbs Journal about a month ago. Thanks for your help. John G.

#187614From: Kyle J. McKisicAug 28, 1995 7:44 AM

John, you're right – saving in Animator Studio forces a 24-bit image file. But I was refering to Animator Pro, which is all 8-bit and great for doing good pallete mainpulitaion. -Kyle

#187718From: dave aguilarAug 28, 1995 3:18 PM

Saving in Animator _Studio_ as a .BMP seems to force a 24-bit file to be created, not an 8-bit file. << very easy way to do this… load any image, save in AAS as a PCX file, open good ol Paintbrush from Windows accessories, save as 8-bit BMP. piece o cake. -dave

#187763From: John GallantAug 28, 1995 7:17 PM

Unfortunately "good ol Paintbrush from Windows" messes up my palette which must have specific colors in specific places. It seems like I may need to write my own filter to convert either .PCX or 24-bit .BMP to 8-bit .BMP. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

#187803From: will taitAug 28, 1995 11:35 PM

John, Pain Shop Pro from JASC software, a great file conversion program and it does very nice color reduction. Probably find a shareware version here in Cserve. Perhaps graphics forum. Also, Bit edit and Pal edit are very good utilities for palette manipulation. Will

#187827From: dave aguilarAug 29, 1995 1:08 AM

>> Pain Shop Pro from JASC software, a great file conversion program and it does very nice color reduction. Probably find a shareware version here in Cserve. Perhaps graphics forum. << it sure does. excellent utility. -dave

#187861From: John GallantAug 29, 1995 6:55 AM

>> Bit edit and Pal edit They will not read 24-bit bitmaps. I will look for Paint Shop Pro but my conversion program is mostly done already. It is frustrating that so many paint programs do some good things that others don't but skip some otherwise essential details. I also bought EA's Delux Paint IIE. It has some great palette manipulation features but does not deal with .BMP at all. Thanks for the lead on PSP.

#187927From: dave aguilarAug 29, 1995 2:40 PM

>> They will not read 24-bit bitmaps. I will look for Paint Shop Pro but my conversion program is mostly done already. It is frustrating that so many paint programs do some good things that others don't but skip some otherwise essential details. I also bought EA's Delux Paint IIE. It has some great palette manipulation features but does not deal with .BMP at all. Thanks for the lead on PSP. << you'll find it as a file PSP.ZIP in WINUTIL forum. search on keyword "paint". Great shareware program. -dave

#188026From: will taitAug 30, 1995 12:36 AM

Bit and Pal You are right but they will do a color reduction from 24 to 8 and you can declare the number of colors. Also excellent for creating custom palettes from diverse sources. Will

#188057From: John GallantAug 30, 1995 9:20 AM

I tried again and you are right. I had been trying to use PalEdit first and it balked at the depth. If I use BitEdit it converts to a paletized bitmap format. I will need to try a few things but it may do what I need. Thanks.