RE: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg bootsplas h jpgs working

[Miles R. <mr...@we...>]

will be in the build script :o) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Batley [mailto:tre...@us...] 
Sent: Monday, 6 June 2005 01:03 a.m.
To: Mike Eriksen
Cc: thi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Thinstation-developer] Easy way to have 24 bit jpg bootsplash
jpgs working

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:27 +0200, Mike Eriksen wrote:
> 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

Much easier than struggling with GIMP or one of the other tools. Never found
it easy to work out how to change some of those settings...:)

> 
> 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"
> :-)

You forgot the second please (ie. Please, Miles, Please).
> 
> Trevor: you think a bit about TS-O-M, OK?

Could add this into TS-O-Matic, but if it is included in the build script,
then it's a waste of time (and getting the TSoM admins to take a new version
will be hard... :P

Will look at how hard, though.

Trevor B
> 
> Mike



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