Re: [NTLK] Newton Press Pictures

From: Dr. Faustus (dr_faustus_at_pcisys.net)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 16:10:35 EDT


At 10:51 AM 10/26/2002 -0400, Victor Rehorst wrote:

>Dr. Faustus wrote:
> > So I'm trying to create some backdrops for AVI's Backdrop. I'm on a
> > windows box (It's the only non unix box I own). Whenever I import a
> > picture in to Newton Press it looks horrible. I've made sure the pictures
> > are black and white and sixteen shades of gray. Which format looks good
> > when you pull it in?
>
>1. Use a graphics converter (for UNIX, you could just use ImageMagick if
>you're familiar with it, or GIMP) to convert the image to 16 greys or colours
>*first*. Newton Press' dithering sucks IMHO.
>
>2. Set the layout of the book to one of the MP2000 or eMate formats before
>you paste your image - these are the only ones that support 16 greyscale.

I am. It still looks horrible. What picture format (bitmap, gif, jpeg,
tiff) does it like the best?

Andy

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