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Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:32:14 +0100

Stephen Adler wrote:
>
> when I dump a canvas to a .gif file, the gif image uses blue for its background
> and all the colors I've used in the plots are black. Is there a way
> to get gif files of the canvases to retain the color shown on the
> screen?
>
> thanks.
>
> Steve.

Hi Steve,
My guess is that you are working with an old version of Root
(prior to 2.20) and use a display with more than 8 color planes.
This problem was fixed in 2.20. This version supports gif files
from screen with more than 8 color palnes.

Rene Brun