"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
>> "Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
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>> > On Sun,  4 Oct 2009 06:31:04 EDT, "Silverlight2009" <nomail@nomail> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hello. Is there any mood in POV-Ray to change the default output file
>> >>type?
>> >>Thanks.
>> >>
>> > Yes there is, read the documents/help section 3.1.2.4.1  Output File 
>> > Type.
>> >
>>
>> ... and, in particular the INI file syntax, which is Output_File_Type=J 
>> (or
>> one of the listed types), which you can put into the 'povray.ini' file to
>> make it the default behaviour on your system.
>> The 'J' option gives jpeg output (which I think is missing from the
>> documentation). On Windows you can edit 'povray.ini' from the Tools menu 
>> and
>> you shouldn't need to restart POV-Ray afterwards.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris B.
>
> Hmm, did not know this was still there.
>
> On the other hand, ick, very poor quality.
>

Ah yes! When I mention the JPEG option I really should also warn that it 
seems to do something strange with colours (at least on my Windows Vista 
system). It's not by any means a recommendation to use that particular 
format and it would have been better if I'd have used another format to 
illustrate my point. POV-Ray generated jpeg files display ok in Netscape, 
but the thumbnails and the windows image viewer both show bizarre colours 
which dissapear if I load and save the output from a graphics editor.

Regards,
Chris B.

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