Re: WP works - but it looks funny.
MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/7/99 8:30:33 PM Central Standard Time, mwagnon@ixpres.com
> writes:
>
> > I can't help you with the wordperfect problem, but netscape doesn't look
> > good at 24bpp. I not sure of the technical explanation, but every
> > version of netscape (from 3.x) on, has the same problem. The solution,
> > run at 16 or 32bpp. In your case, that would be 16bpp.
> >
>
> Does this bother anyone else? Word Perfect can't handle 32bpp, Netscape can't
> handle 24bpp... sure glad I spent money to upgrade my video card with more
> memory. At least it's not a total waste, when I'm using Windows on this
> machine, it doesn't have a problem with 24bpp (altho it doesn't support
> 32bpp).
>
Actually wp 8.0 and Netscape 4.5 can candle 8, 16 and 32 bpp without any problems.
> Is this an application issue? Or is it a Linux issue? Seems to me it outta
> be fixed one way or another.
>
> -Jay
My wild guess is that it is an application issue running at 24bpp. Reason is that
other applications (eg GIMP, Acrobat Reader etc) running at 24bpp does not suffer the
same symptoms.
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