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keesan
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CLP format
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Nov 18 20:01 UTC 2000 |
Are all .clp files Microsoft Windows Clipboard? A drawing program that I am
trying out will import and export .clp files (or export .pcx files) and there
seems to be nothing else that it will import. I tried importing a .clp file
that I made out of a gif file (with Newdeal) and it displayed as a blank page,
and a .clp file from the drawing program would not import at all into Newdeal
(format not supported). Could the author be using .clp for some other
nonstandard format?
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keesan
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response 1 of 6:
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Nov 20 00:32 UTC 2000 |
The author tells me that his .clp files are in a formatted that he invented
in 1990, before Windows started using the same file extension. They are
vector based, which prints better.
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keesan
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response 2 of 6:
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Nov 20 17:03 UTC 2000 |
How many different graphic file formats are there in common use, and which
ones are vector based?
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albaugh
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response 3 of 6:
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Nov 21 22:49 UTC 2000 |
Obviously, the most common ones are .bmp (microbloat :-), .jpg, and .gif
There are others such as .tif and .pcx, but you don't see them in a frequent
use. Web browsers know how to display .jpg and .gif directly.
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keesan
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response 4 of 6:
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Nov 22 02:26 UTC 2000 |
Can browsers also display pcx, which I am told are bitmapped but for some
reason when I did a screen capture the pcx file was a third the length of a
gif file.
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gull
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response 5 of 6:
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Nov 22 03:57 UTC 2000 |
Re #3: There's also PNG, which is similar to GIF but has better compression
and doesn't have the patent rights problems GIF does. Most recent browsers
now support it, but not all fully support transparent PNG files yet.
It's a little misleading to think of TIF as a single graphic format. I can
think of at least five different types of TIF file that are mutually
incompatible.
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albaugh
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response 6 of 6:
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Nov 22 22:34 UTC 2000 |
Dunno re: browsers & .pcx, but it would be reasonable to assume "no".
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