Short: Color palettes used by PC browsers Author: info@cloanto.com (Cloanto) Uploader: info cloanto com (Cloanto) Type: gfx/ppaint Architecture: generic Distribution: Only Cloanto, Aminet and Aminet CD-ROM PROGRAMS USING THE FILES - Personal Paint - All programs supporting IFF color palettes INSTALLATION - Copy the color palettes into "PPaint/Colors" DESCRIPTION When they are not operating on a true color desktop (or "Workbench", in Amiga terminology), the majority of PC Internet browsers remap and dither all images using a 216-color "isopalette", which is a palette in which the entries are equally distributed in the color space. This allows for fast and efficient dithering, and is in general preferred to other methods involving dynamic color allocation and change based on the different images. Internet browsers by Microsoft, Netscape and others share a common isopalette, consisting of 216 colors. The remaining colors out of 256 change from browser to browser. Of these 216 colors, 6 are grays. This archive contains the palettes (in color, as well as the subset of grays) ready for use on the Amiga. Whenever this choice is easily practicable, we recommend to consider using these colors for palette-based graphics, especially for large surfaces of the same color, which would otherwise risk to be dithered by the browser. If your chip set does not support 8-bit color resolution (go in the Edit Palette requester, and see if the maximum value associated to the color knob is 256, or less), we suggest to force the color resolution by setting REDBITS, GREENBITS and BLUEBITS to 8 in Personal Paint's "Startup_1.set" settings file. NOTES Don't forget to visit the Cloanto web site (http://www.cloanto.com), which contains precious tips on Internet publishing in the Amiga Documents and Frequently Asked Questions sections. For additional information on the files, please refer to the documentation included with the original (commercial) distribution. In particular, all files are Copyright © 1997 Cloanto Italia srl.