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6 Sep 2024 06:23:00 EDT (-0400)
  Targa vs compressed targa  
From: george erhard
Date: 10 Jan 1999 20:25:59
Message: <3699538D.D9EB9327@pacbell.net>
Here's a heads-up... for some silly reason my Corel Photo-Paint 7 chokes on
POV-generated compressed targas.  So in my case, the uncompressed format is
better.  Your mileage may vary.

Ron Parker wrote:

> On 16 Dec 1998 05:36:12 -0500, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] assaricctutfi> wrote:
> >Andrew Cocker <and### [at] acockerfreeservecouk> wrote:
> >:     You need to use the switch +FT ( add it to your \renderer\povray.ini
> >: file ).
> >
> >  I have always thought that this is the default and that you don't have
> >to specify it.
> >  And anyways, +FC is better.
>
> It's no longer the default on the Windows platform.  The default on that
> platform is sys, or BMP.  But yes, +FC is probably better, unless you have
> a big hard drive and a slow computer.  (For the benefit of the newusers,
> +FT specifies uncompressed Targa format, and +FC specifies compressed
> Targa format.)

--
 george erhard
 microsoft certified system engineer
 http://home.pacbell.net/dcnblues

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