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Old 03-21-2016, 07:56 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Kobold001 View Post
I want to download PNG files from the internet with wget and then display them.
Color depth should not be an issue (my pngshow should support all PNG, if you find one that does not work, send me a copy). The framebuffer of the Kobo is actually full color anyway (RGB565) so if you take a screenshot in the webbrowser you'll see colors too. The conversion to 16 levels grey is something that happens in the e-Ink driver - I guess.

However pngshow is really just a stupid program that draws PNG on screen, it does not do any scaling or whatever, so this should be the main problem when just downloading random images from somewhere.
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