ANNOUNCE: new XDRIVER released!

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 05:07:58PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> today we can proudly present the new XDRIVER with
> *true* 24bit support! We are grateful to Roberto Flor 
Congratulations. 
Thanks to Roberto and thanks for informing us.

>  Watch an example and get the source code as well as precompiled
>  binaries here:
>  http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/xdriver.html

The example image is in gif format. :)
That means it only supports 256 colors. 
Well it is still a resonable example, because these 256 colors can be 
choosen from a greater number.
Still an PNG picture (not using indexed colors) would be indeed show
24bit. (Sideplug: more people should considere this nice graphic format
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/ )

;-)
	Bernhard

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Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA.    (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard)
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