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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Lee Forrest wrote:

> For the first time, I attempted to view photographic
> images of places and people with xli/Xvsesa, and was
> pretty disappointed in the result. They were _interesting_,
> even aesthetically appealing, but not accurate:
>
> ../images<#>xli -supported
> Image types supported:
>  GIF Image
>  JPEG Image (JFIF format)
>  BMP Image (RLE encoded)
>  Photo CD Image
>  X Window Dump
>  G3 FAX Image
>  PC Paintbrush Image
>  MacPaint Image
>  X Pixmap
>  X Bitmap
>
> No png!

I know, that is why I use zgv instead.  Or links2 graphical as a viewer.
xli is small.

> ../images/xli monica13.jpg
>
> monica13.jpg is a 400x533 JPEG image, color space YCbCr, 3
> comps., Huffman coding Converting true color image to RGB image
> with 16 colors...done Building XImage...done Image Gamma now
> 1.025496 xx

Can you set X to truecolor, maybe with lower resolution?
Is 4-bit color the default for XLI?  Odd.  Or specify 64K colors rather 
than 64?

> ../images<#>xli -colors 64 monica13.jpg

> Lee

Sindi