Re: FVWM: reducing pixmap colour tables

From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:59:59 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Dan Espen wrote:
> Martin Cartwright <M.Cartwright_at_queens-belfast.ac.uk> writes:
> > I seem to remember from a while back a discussion about a program
> > which reduces a bunch of pixmaps to a common colourmap. I hunted
> > around in the archives and couldn't find what I was looking for.
> >
> > My problem is that I have designed a new set of icons which started
> > off all using the same 32 colours. However, I designed them using a
> > package on my Windows PC at home as the graphics stuff here at work is
> > not good for this kind of stuff. This meant I had to save them as GIFs
> > and then convert them to XPMs. I also reduced the number of colours
> > for each pixmap to 8, however the total number of unique colours for
> > the whole set has jumped to about 150 (!) . What I want to do is force
> > them all back to having the same 8 colours between them..
> >
> > Does anybody know a package that'll do this?

There is something in netpbm that will do this. Basically what it does is
stick all your icons into one big picture, reduce that to however many colors,
and then cut them apart again.

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Received on Fri Aug 29 1997 - 12:59:58 BST

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