Re: [gtk-list] Re: how to encode for 256 color pixmap?

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:31:26 -0200, Marco Sousa wrote:
> Did u tried .PGM files? it uses raw data and suport 256 colors.There are some
> tools to
> convert to jpg too. (cjpeg i think).

JPEG is a nice compression standard for *natural* images, as soon as you
want to compress artificial images, you'd better use gif or png.

I think the original poster wants the pixmap for a button or a background
image; those images are allmost allways artificial images. GTK directly
supports XPM (both runtime loaded, as well as compile time linked), as soon
as you want a different image format, you have to include a decompression
engine.


Erik

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