Hi Greg.

27-Oct-02 00:25:00, Greg Easthom wrote to John Wilson


 JW>> -> Just how big are the pictures going to be, anyway?

 JW>> Small...

 JW>> My program now consists of the cards...lectures on the Kaballah,

 GE> Do you have the cards on disk yet? Which of the thousands of decks
 GE> are you planning on using?

 GE> Will you be using a standard 10 or 11-card Celtic cross, or the
 GE> Kaballah's "Tree of Life", with its 10 cards and 22 paths?

 GE> Do you want the cards to overlap (C cross) and be reversible?

 GE> After I found out I could make PaintShop convert 16-color GIFs
 GE> (screen caps of the whole deck from MS Solitaire) into a sorta
 GE> human-readable format (Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript), I
 GE> scribbled a couple of QB progs to quickly convert the resulting
 GE> files into that "easy-use" format I mentioned earlier. That was
 GE> AFTER I wrote an editor where I could manually draw and save a
 GE> card.

Neat. I never thought of using EPS pixmaps, but yeah it's an uncompressed
format and thefore easy to read. (once you figure it out)

FWIW The deck from ms solitaire is in some DLL (I forget which) in windows BMP
format. and a reasonably simple basic prog can probably read that too.

 -=> Bye <=-

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