Re: Byte ordering

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 19:05:15 +0000, BGB wrote:

On 10/4/2024 12:30 PM, Anton Ertl wrote:
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Say, pretty much none of the modern graphics programs (that I am aware
of) really support working with 16-color and 256-color bitmap images
with a manually specified color palette.
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Typically, any modern programs are true-color internally, typically only
supporting 256-color as an import/export format with an automatically
generated "optimized" palette, and often not bothering with 16-color
images at all. Not so useful if one is doing something that does
actually have a need for an explicit color palette (and does not have so
much need for any "photo manipulation" features).

1996 version of CorelDraw 3 suffers from none of this, supporting all
sorts of pallets {RGB, CYM, CYMK, at least 3 more) with various
user specified limitations, 24-bit, 32-bit, ... with all sorts of
fillers mixing any 2 colors previous mentioned with various patterns
{gradient, polka dot, you define which pixel gets from which color}.
Still have the CD-ROM if anyone wants to try.

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And, most people generally haven't bothered with this stuff since the
Win16 era (even the people doing "pixel art" are still generally doing
so using true-color PNGs or similar).

Blame PowerPoint ... No more evil tool ever existed.

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