[softwarelist] Re: Loading pictures into OPro

In message of 25 Jun, Chris Johnson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <06cc18b54f.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So I tried another PNG.  And it still failed, presumably because it
> > won't load into the RISC OS version.
> 
> The difference is that (TTBOMK) Select has a much wider range of
> image processing routines built in to the OS, and can deal with PNGs.
> RISC OS 5, which you are using, does not. I know from many previous
> posts that Dave uses Select - indeed, he has said many times that he
> never considered buying an Iyonix because there was no Select for it.

And what he wrote late yesterday was:
 
> One thing you need to understand is that Ovation Pro can only render and 
> contain in documents certain types of image.
> 
> For RISC OS they are: Sprite, Draw, JPEG, ArtWorks and EPS.

And surprise, surprise on my RPC with RISC OS 6.1 I could not load a PNG
file into OPro there either.

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