Re: How to print to file in svgalib?

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Tue 04 Jul 2000 - 12:37:33 IDT

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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 lists@123india.com wrote:

> hi,
> 
> 	I managed to save the color table by using gl_getpalettecolor as I
> couldn't figure out how gl_getpalette was working. Then using raw2gif and
> the saved color table (raw2gif is from libungif, not netpbm - sorry for
> the mistake) I can make a .gif(uncompressed) from the screen dump. The
> image is fine. I found out that a color table is a file with 4 entries per
> line.
> 
> 	Which will be the best format to save a 256 color image? And which
> library will be easy to use for that? (found out that a jpg is best for
> 24bit, not 8bit)

png is certainly preferable for a computer generated 256 color
image. Sergio Masci gave you an example for using libpng.

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org

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