.bmp won't work here either -- but try this .tif version (fwd)

[Christina Thiele]

Here's what I've just sent off to Dan Haugland. I think I've gone as
far as I can on this one.

Ch.

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Forwarded message:
> From cthiele Wed Mar  5 23:51:45 2003
> Subject: .bmp won't work here either -- but try this .tif version
> To: danno at bestbill.com
> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:51:45 -0500 (EST)
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5]
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> I don't know if you're at all interested in just side-stepping the
> problem ...
>
> I am unable to get your .bmp file to process in v.2.2 (which I just
> installed this evening on my machine -- I had v.2.1 still around).
>
> However, using GIMP to convert your .bmp file into .tif, I _was_  able
> to get Graph1 to show on the screen, in colour.
>
> I'm attaching the .tif I generated, in the event you need to get at
> least _something_ to print.
>
> I guess the question now might be -- can Delphi generate any kind of
> .bmp file that Y&Y v.2.2 will accept. And if you've been able to get
> .bmp files to work in the past, were they generated by this same
> version of Delphi?
>
> I'm afraid this is all the help I can give you. Determine whether this
> .bmp file is somehow different from previous ones which did work. If
> it's the first .bmp you've tried, do up a simpler sample to see if
> it'll work. If not, then you may have some kind of incompatable .bmp
> file which will only work once converted to .tif, for example.
>
> For your info, here's my sample file testing both formats:
>
> \special{insertimage:Graph1.tif}
>
> \hfill\eject
>
> \special{insertimage:Graph1.bmp}
>
> \end
>
> ====
>
> Ch.
>
>
>
>
> (attachment; filename="Graph1.tif")
>

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