[softwarelist] Re: Loading pictures into OPro
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:27:55 +0100
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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