Now I'm just going to answer my own questions. Hopefully will be useful to somebody else out there. On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:43:35PM -0500, Jack Neely wrote: > Hi, > > What are the rules for the syslinux splash image? It looks like you > need a PNG that's 640x300, 4-bit colormap, indexed, and not very many > colors. Then this gets converted to an LSS with something like > > pngtopnm splash.png | ./ppmtolss16 > splash.lss > > ppmtolss16 doesn't seem to work on 8.0. It complains about an > unexpected EOF in the file. But under 7.3 it runs fine. However, In the mix of ppmtolss16 and perl something somewhere doesn't like utf-8. Do an "unset LANG". > running the above on an 8 bit colormap, 20 colors in the color map, > file generated from Gimp gives me: > > % pngtopnm splash.png | ./ppmtolss16 > splash.lss > ./ppmtolss16: Warning: color palette truncated (4 colors ignored) > 192000 pixels, 27707 bytes, (71.14% compression) > > and all but 2 or 3 colors remain. (Not a pretty picture.) > 16 colors. Works great. Reminds me of my DOS days. > How do you create a 4 bit colormap PNG file? Gimp doesn't seem to want > to. I can limit the howmany colors in the color map but that doesn't > make a difference. > > What other rules apply to making this file so it works properly? > > Jack Neely > -- > Jack Neely <slack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Linux Realm Kit Administration and Development > PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University > GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > -- Jack Neely <slack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux Realm Kit Administration and Development PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89
