RE: [Pythoncard-users] better GIF screen shots on Windows

Thanks Neil! I started using it today when I did the radioclient screen
shot. This is a great simple little utility that produces good results and
is easy to use.

I thought there were some browsers that couldn't display PNG, but I guess
they are going to be out of luck.

ka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Neil
> Hodgson
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:24 PM
> To: pythoncard-Users
> Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] better GIF screen shots on Windows
>
>
>    Hi Kevin,
>
> > Then I bring up Microsoft Paint which comes with Windows and paste that
> into
> > a new document and save in GIF format. When the image is
> converted to GIF,
> > the colors are reduced to 256 (8-bit) and at that point any smooth color
> > gradients get messed up.
>
>    On Windows, I save screenshots as true colour BMPs from Paint
> and the use
> bmp2png to convert to PNG format. This preserves gradiants and
> other images
> and compresses reasonably well.
> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA010446/b2p-home/index.html
>
>    Neil
>
>
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