RE: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg bootsplas h jpgs working
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From: Mike E. <km...@ke...> - 2005-06-18 07:45:32
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Trevor Batley wrote: > Hate to tell you this guys, but the convert -depth 16 doesn't do what > you think it does. That might be. However, as far as my experience reach, it does what bootsplash expects. You got me slightly concerned, as I only did play with convert on my home made jpgs made by Gimp, but now I tried on a picture I found on the net of a beautiful girl in natural surroundings (actually it is a natural girl in beautiful surroundings, but I hardly can write that on a decent list like this one, can I :-) and it works just nicely too. Mike > > Have been doing a bit of playing and it's more to do with the starting > image than the convert. It appears that -depth 8 is more like 24bit (8 > bit x red, green, blue). There is probably some other settings that will > do it, but I'm pretty sure that just -depth 16 won't. > > Trevor B > > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:42 +1200, Miles Roper wrote: > > for the standard distro a person may not have the imagicmagic libs installed > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Eriksen [mailto:km...@ke...] > > Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2005 11:10 p.m. > > To: Miles Roper > > Cc: 'Trevor Batley'; thi...@li... > > Subject: RE: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg bootsplas h > > jpgs working > > > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Miles Roper wrote: > > > > > > > > added a lib directory .... > > > > > > utils/tools/lib > > > > > > which contains symlinks > > > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jun 12 19:14 libfreetype.so.6 > > -> > > > ../../../packages/lib/libfreetype.so.6* > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jun 12 19:14 libjpeg.so.62 -> > > > ../../../packages/lib/libjpeg.so.62* > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jun 12 19:14 libMagick.so.6 -> > > > ../../../packages/lib/libMagick.so.6* > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jun 12 19:14 libpng12.so.0 -> > > > ../../../packages/lib/libpng12.so.0* > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 12 19:14 libtiff.so.3 -> > > > ../../../packages/lib/libtiff.so.3* > > > > > > also had to compile and include libMagick.so.6 > > > > > > and make a wrapper convert script in utils/tools called convert. the > > > binary was renamed to convert.bin > > > > Hmmm. So my "easy and small" suggestion wasn't that small after all. Sorry > > about that. But why recompile ImageMagick? It's only going to run on the > > build host anyway? > > > > Mike > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Trevor Batley [mailto:tre...@us...] > > > Sent: Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:50 p.m. > > > To: Miles Roper > > > Cc: thi...@li...; 'Mike Eriksen' > > > Subject: RE: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg > > > bootsplas h jpgs working > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:38 +1200, Miles Roper wrote: > > > > ok, from change log... > > > > > > > > * Added convert to build, changes .jpg files in > > > > utils/tools/boot/*.jpg to > > > > 16 > > > > bit, suggestion from Mike > > > > > > > > for 2.1 and 2.2 > > > > > > > > note that if there is another folder for TS-O-Matic that you want me > > > > to do trevor let me know. > > > > > > I just mimic the standard build. As this will be under the utils > > > directory, have you added any other directories or files I should know > > > about (unfortunately I have to copy these across to ensure I can do > > > the image build correctly - everything else is symlinked except the conf > > files). > > > > > > Trevor B > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Mike Eriksen [mailto:km...@ke...] > > > > Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:27 p.m. > > > > To: thi...@li... > > > > Subject: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg > > > > bootsplash jpgs working > > > > > > > > As you may have seen on general, I've found a simple way to convert > > > > 24 bit jpgs into 16 bit. > > > > > > > > ImageMagick has a 4.5kB command line tool, convert, that works like > > this: > > > > > > > > convert -depth 16 before24.jpg after16.jpg > > > > > > > > The licence of ImageMagick is GPL compatible. > > > > > > > > I tried to convert an already 16 bit jpg once more and it didn't break. > > > > > > > > I strongly suggest, that convert is added to the tools directory and > > > > the build script is hacked to run the above command unconditional on > > > > bootsplash and silent before releasing 2.1. > > > > > > > > I know 2.1 is in feature freeze (and I support it being so), but > > > > this is such a small hack, that will prevent so many support > > > > requests on the mailing lists, that I'm willing to go on my knees > > > > and say "Please, > > > Miles" > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > Trevor: you think a bit about TS-O-M, OK? > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > > > Thinstation FAQ maintainer > > > > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net > > > > - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. 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