On Friday 22 February 2002 11:19 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> On Friday 22 February 2002 10:56 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > Angus> wrote: > >> >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> >> Another question: why do we need grayscale/mono rendering? >> > >> Shouldn't we just display the figure as well as the display >> > >> permits? This seems very complicated for a small gain... > >> > Angus> Because people ask for it? Anyway, it's about 40 lines of code. > >> OK, if it is so short, we can handle that. And how do you make > >> sure that we limit the number of colors on 8bits display? Do the > >> xpms have a common palette? > > Angus> No, I have done nothing like that. I suspect that is what John > Angus> was talking about with XpmAllocCloseCloseColors, but I'm not > Angus> going to investigate further as all woks fine on my TrueColor > Angus> display. > > We will definitely have to investigate this for 1.2.0, since otherwise > you will see people with 8bit displays very unhappy. > > You can always restart your X server in 8bit mode, you know...
But I'm happy. If others have a problem, then they have motivation. Anyway, I thought I'd try and clip/rotate the image first. A
