Color map problems

[Schmidt]

At 07:22 PM 2/25/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>I'm starting to play with GRASS after several months away from it.
>
>If I take a gif file (not necessarily map data) and display it with xv, 
>xpaint, or netscape it looks great.  If I import it into GRASS and 
>display it with d.rast it looks awful.  The information is correct, but my
>color map is very poor.  Is there an easy way of getting a better color
>map, possibly from X.  It would take me all day to edit the color table
>with d.colors.  Indeed, even a text editor wouldn't work very well,
>because I simply want to make things look like they do in the other
>packages.  Doing this with an editor would be a pain.
>
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Using Kang's binary for Linux, I've had very good success with r.in.gif to
bring in scanned aerial photographs (8-bit color). The colormaps seem quite
accurate. You might want to consider upgrading if you haven't already.

Jim Schmidt
GIS Instructor
Columbia College, Sonora, CA.
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