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nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
>I agree with Frank that many programs are too feature-ful, but maybe
>the editing functions can be put into another file, so that viewfax
>remains small and clean, but those of us who don't have 11Mbytes of
>memory to spare for xpaint can still edit faxes?
>
>[ And yes, as far as I can see, that's a proper English sentence, but
>given its length it must have Germanic roots somewhere.  :) ]

[ First, the verbs to the end of the sentence migrate. ]

I still feel viewing and editing belong in separate programs, I guess
because editing is always going to involve a more heavyweight program
with higher resource usage.  Compare 'more' and 'less' as viewer with
vi and emacs for editing.

xpaint appears to default to 8-bit colour visuals, even if the input
is 1 bit.  I may have missed an option somewhere, but when I read in a
tiff/fax file and save it as tiff, I get an 8-bit LZW output about 10
times as big as the input file :-( Also, it appears only to handle the
first page of multipage documents.  Still, it should be possible to
hack at xpaint to give it a parsimonious black&white mode - if the
input is 1-bit/pixel drop all the colour stuff and use Bitmaps instead
of Pixmaps.  Hmmm... I hope someone points us to a better solution
soon, otherwise I might get motivated, contact xpaint's author and
start hacking.

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