Colors

[Siep Kroonenberg]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Taco Hoekwater

What about  interpolating in 24-bit color and mapping to the palettein a
second step? Or would that come out too expensive?