Re: [R] Colour depth reduced to 12 by bitmap devices

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Subject: Re: [R] Colour depth reduced to 12 by bitmap devices
From: Prof Brian D Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 29 Jun 2000 - 19:19:21 EST 

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Clive Jenkins wrote:
>
> > I am using R to create colour plots as bitmap files. I have created a
> > palette of 256 colours that I want to use, but the resultant output
> > files contain only 12 colours used in dither patterns. The result is the
> > same whether I use bmp() or png().
>
> What about bitmap()? Have you tried that?
>
> Internally bmp/png/jpeg use take a copy of the screen, so what you get
> depends on your graphics card driver. If you are seeing dithering in the
> PNG file, do you see it on screen? Is your screen set to a truecolour
> mode?
>
> bitmap() works via ghostscript.

I can confirm that none of png, bmp, bitmap dither on my system for this
example. 

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