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  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Xvesa Xli Images
  • Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:03:34 +0000

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:39:59PM -0800, David Moberg wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
> > >
> > I vaguely recall also having poor quality jpegs with xli, before I
> > switched to zgv and xv. Have you tried xv?

I do admire consistency.

> The xv package is larger than a megabyte. This way is...
>
> jpegtopnm - 89,308
> ppmdither - 6,920
> ppmtobmp - 10,148
> libnetpbm.so.10.26 - 173,883
>
> Grand total, 280,256, plus pnmscale (15,112), pngtopnm (60,456), and
> libpng (~200K), BL3 and a ?100-byte? shell script. This way is more
> flexible (general-purpose tools), smaller (the ELF headers are easier
> to compress than xv code), works without leaving X11/xli/rxvt/sh and
> won't crash like svgalib.

OK. I'm convinced. I'll give it a try. Better than having to get
a humongous new xserver.

But I only have 16 colors. How _can_ it work?

Lee

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