Sims Art Studio problem

PenmanCLL

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Oct 19, 2001, 3:19:00 PM10/19/01

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Downloaded it last night to see how hard it was to create paintings for the
game. Maybe whip up some famous paintings to go in Sim houses. But with most of
the painting JPEG's I downloaded off of Gnutella, when I try to select them,
SAS hangs up and I have to leave the program. Any idea how I correct this?

Christian Ledford
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Jeremy Reaban

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Oct 19, 2001, 3:50:32 PM10/19/01

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"PenmanCLL" <penm...@aol.comradskaya> wrote in message
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> Downloaded it last night to see how hard it was to create paintings
for the
> game. Maybe whip up some famous paintings to go in Sim houses. But
with most of
> the painting JPEG's I downloaded off of Gnutella, when I try to
select them,
> SAS hangs up and I have to leave the program. Any idea how I correct
this?

Try converting the jpgs to bitmaps. SAS seems to have trouble using
jpgs sometimes...

Adam Selene

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Oct 22, 2001, 1:11:53 AM10/22/01

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In article <tt10sq4...@corp.supernews.com>, Jeremy Reaban
<j...@Xconnectria.com> wrote:

Yes, definitely, convert .jpg files to 8-bit .bmp files. I've
had no luck at all with jpeg files.

I've also learned the hard way that it helps to stop and restart
the program between paintings. If I use Art Studio's button that
takes you back to the the start after saving a painting, it crashes.
It might work better under a later version of Windows; I'm running
Windows 95.

Greg
http://moonsims.asi.org/

Ohmikeghod

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Oct 22, 2001, 6:41:13 AM10/22/01

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Adam Selene wrote:

It does the same thing under ME. I've found that it will work with
jpegs, as long as the size is small. If it crashes on a jpeg, I'll
reduce the size and try again, until it works.

--- Mike ---
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Bruce Morrison

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Oct 23, 2001, 10:20:50 AM10/23/01

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Adam Selene wrote:

> > Try converting the jpgs to bitmaps. SAS seems to have trouble using
> > jpgs sometimes...

I haven't had any problems using JPG's in SAS it's possibly a little slow, but
it doesn't crash on me

Bruce in Cleveland

Bluegenie2

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Oct 24, 2001, 5:26:18 PM10/24/01

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But it does on some people.

"Bruce Morrison" <bmor...@apk.net> wrote in message news:3BD57CC2...@apk.net...

Joody

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Oct 25, 2001, 5:33:18 AM10/25/01

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>SAS hangs up and I have to leave the program. Any idea how I correct this?<

Isn't there a patch to solve this problem? I don't remember where I saw this
patch, but I'll check my links and get back to you on that if you want.

Joody

Ohmikeghod

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Oct 26, 2001, 2:53:57 AM10/26/01

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Joody wrote:

It wasn't a patch, it was the latest version. The blurb said that it
solved "some, but not all" of the jpeg problems, and that some jpegs
still caused it to crash.

--- Mike ---
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