[plug] Acrobat PDF files and X11

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> > As soon as the focus is on any other X window or X desktop, the Acrobat cha
> nges color.
> > This is reversed when I change my focus to Acrobat.
> 
> This means you are running X in (probably) 256 colour mode, which means

It's not limited to X; happens on OS/2 and NT as well;

>
> 
> What make/model gfx card are you running? If it's one supported by X and
> configured correctly you can force X to run with more colours by starting
> it with eg:
> 
> "startx -- -bpp 16" (for 16 bit colour - 65536 colours)

Fails if there's not enough video RAM for the resolution you're asking. 
I'm pondering a new video card to overcome the problem; 4 Mbytes will give 
1280x1024 and 16-bit colour.



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