Colors

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:41:59 +0200 Fabrice POPINEAU 
<popineau@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> wrote:

> 
> Thanks to all your comments ... I have a bunch of work to do :-)
> I have found a few bugs (namely ps, colors).
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking that there is little hope to support color on
> 256 colors devices ?
> 
> Currently, anti-aliasing uses 16 colors per couple (background,
> foreground). The only way to achieve color support for 8bits devices
> would be :
> 
> - maintain a palette of allocated colors for the current page
> - no antialiasing, or only 4-bits antialiasing

Perhaps you could offer the user a choice between antialiasing and 
colors. 

Or you could perhaps use a very rude rounding approach for the 
colors, so that Pink might eventually come out Red. (Thus supporting 
only 8 or so separate colors and mapping everything else to those). 
I would not be very happy with this as a user, but it is a trifle 
better than no color at all.

> and I wonder what will happen with image inclusions ...
> 
> Any comment ?
> 
> Fabrice
> 
> 
> 

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