30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
4:40 p.m.
In article <004001c714dd$415adbf0$4804010a at uatempname>,
<arcarlini at iee.org> writes:
The RSX & RT-11 manuals I scanned had various
pages with colour -
for RSX-11M & RSX-11MPLUS it matters because various sections
only apply under certain conditions and colour is used to
indicate that. So there's B&W, red text, blue text, pink
background, grey background and probably blue background too.
With a little care, you can capture this accurately and efficiently by
quantizing the truecolor image to a carefully designed color palette.
Then you can store it as 8-bit per pixel (or eve 4-bit per pixel,
depending) and squish it down considerably.
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