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Game Courier Developer's Guide. Learn how to design and program Chess variants for Game Courier.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 6, 2005 04:41 PM EST:
Game Courier can now render boards as GIF files. I have also programmed the GIF and PNG rendering methods to be able to resize images with little or no distortion to the image. Previously, a resized PNG file would be very ugly, but no more. Resized GIF files get the palette reduced back to 256 colors and are dithered. Resized PNG files make use of the PNG format's ability to handle true color images. This results in no distortion but also a larger file size than a resized GIF or JPG. Although the PNG method can handle true color images, it will normally start out as a small-palette image. So JPG is better if you are using a JPG background for your board.