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28 Apr 2024 15:21:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cann't get BMP file output?  
From: Jerry Jeng
Date: 17 Nov 1999 19:10:53
Message: <3833440d@news.povray.org>

>
>
>Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>
>> In article <382F53BD.90BF161E@ttu.edu.tw> , Jerry Jeng <jen### [at] ttuedutw>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I can get TGA output using +FC or FT, PPM using +FP, PNG using +FN.
But
>> > when I use +FS, I still get a TGA output file. Does anyone know this
>> > problem?
>>
>> The +FS switch is for _system specific_ image formats (as explained in
the
>> documentation). If there is no system specific image format supported,
the
>> default Targa output is used.
>>
>>    Thorsten
>
>Just to add to what Thorsten has said:
>
>The .tga format has always been pretty much the defacto standard for the
>MSDos version while .bmp is a Windows specific format.
>
>You can use any standard dos image convesion program to convert the tga
>to bmp without any loss of image quality afterward.
>
>--
>Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
>http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

Thanks for the answer.                 JJ


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