Re: gif images and 16-bit colour

[Joe Sirott <sirott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rodrigo,

The only current workaround is to either run the X server as 24 bit
TrueColor or 8 bit PseudoColor (as you have already discovered).

This should be fixed in the next release of Ferret.

Rodrigo Caballero Augi wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> I'm using Ferret v4.91b3 on a Linux machine which uses 16-bit colour.
> When I try to make a gif image using for example:
> 
> fill jim
> frame/file=jim.gif
> 
> the program crashes and does a core dump.
> 
> However, if I run my X-server with 8-bit colour, everything works fine and
> gif files are correctly produced.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> Rodrigo
> 
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> 
> Rodrigo Caballero Augi (rca@gfy.ku.dk)
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