From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 15:14:52 PDT
That's odd...
I've never had any problems creating clean greyscale
images in Press. The way I do it is open Word, insert
the image, then convert the word document to RTF, then
import the RTF into Press. That always works for me! I
don't do any preconversions or anything...and it
doesn't matter what format the image is in in the
first place either...
Of course, I haven't done very many, and they usually
are opening pages for the books I create.
I can't remember which books have cover page images,
but I think if you go to my books section, the flyboy
book has a cover image...Unfortunatly, I lost quite a
few files when I lost my server functionality and had
to do my own serving again...
I'll have to do some more experimenting...but not
until late next month...I'm going on vacation next
week and don't want to be disturbed!
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Dan <dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Well I have been looking into making backdrop images
> for the AVI
> backdrop. And I know that some people have had
> trouble with Press
> giving poor quality pictures. I have ran into the
> same problem.
> Apparently I never tried 16 shades of gray bitmaps
> before (although I
> seem to remember trying it and it worked
> before....odd). Even with
> preconverting the image into grayscale and saving it
> as a 4bit BMP,
> Press would dramatically alter the image when it was
> imported making it
> look like garbage (and yes even when using the
> MP2x00 platform setting).
>
> Upon further research I did find a way around this
> problem. If you
> reduce your computers color resolution to 256
> colors, you should see a
> dramatic difference in the quality of images after
> importing into press
> (preconverting still gives better quality though).
> Then you can make a
> book as normal for the AVI backdrop. However it is
> still not the best
> quality that is possible on the Newton.
>
> The current method I am using is to convert the
> image to grayscale, then
> save it as a 4bit in BMP format. Then import it
> into my Newt using
> X-Port, and save it to the notepad. I then copy the
> image to the
> clipboard, and drag it into the AVI preferences.
> This works well and
> gives me a better quality image than using a book
> via Press. The only
> downside is that I am unable to open the AVI
> preferences after I install
> the image. I only get a error when I try. To fix
> this I have to delete
> the preferences file either with Soupkitchen or a
> Preferences cleaner
> (such as Stand Alone's free cleaner). But as I
> don't change the
> backdrop too often, it is a minor point (at least
> for me).
<snip>
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