[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Color depth

[From: Nils Faerber]

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Roger Sperberg schrieb:
> I know the Nokia 770 has 16-bit color, eg, 65,536 colors.
> 
> When I include a jpeg with 16 million colors in a pdb file and open it
> in Plucker Viewer, I get a black box instead of a picture.

Hmm...

> Is this what will happen in the 770? Or will the image be reduced to
> 16-bit color? I'm fiddling around with an ebook, but of course Plucker
> is designed to grab websites for offline reading. I'm wondering what
> will happen to images from those sites put into a pdb.

This depends largely on the options you use to create the PDB book.

I tried with the maemo tutorial which also includes quite
somescreenshots and the most reasonable result I could get was to tell
plucker to reduce the colors to 16 shades of grey.
I have not yet tried colour images myself.

> Thanks,
> Roger
Cheers
  nils faerber

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