[softwarelist] Re: Transloaders

  • From: Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:36:03 +0100

In article <103160334e.alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <1cad26334e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Snip]

> > Sorry, I cannot understand what you mean. Did CJE promise to you that
> > your machine would have all RISC OS Select features? Surely not.

> Well they sold me an Iyonix and the ChangeFSI and it may have pleased 
> me to know right from the start that they would not handle PNGs. No 
> big deal, I still cant get a few images to work easily with OP and the 
> Iyonix.

> Alan
> > 
> > ChangeFSI on the Iyonix does not handle PNGs - big deal, there are
> > other programs out there that can handle it and it would be fairly
> > trivial to create a TransPNG TransLoader that used spr2png instead.
> > 
> > Martin

It is a great convenience to have things done automatically, but as Martin
notes there are other things that'll do the job, but only manually.

DPlngscan for example, is the app I use most for manual graphic file
conversion.

Dave S

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