Office XP graphics
The Game
1024x768 resolution on a flatscreen, True Color (24 bit I
believe). Anyway, everything looks fine when I view
them, but for some reason, Office XP's icons and
interface (especially the shortcut bar and Outlook) all
have icons that look like they only have 256 colors to
them...like they're watercolored or something. They're
not as graphically beautiful as the rest of the XP
interface. It seems to be the only application that is
this way. Any ideas? Please email me instead of posting
back, I might not be through here too often, Thanks.
Bob Buckland ?:-)
The Office XP internal app toolbar icons aren't the
same format as the new style in Windows XP. Office
XP's interface has a similar look to Windows XP but
doesn't support all of its features (released later
than Office XP).
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Marcus, Digital Legacy Inc.
*sigh* let's take the Windows XP icon version of "My Computer", I'm sure
you're familiar with it. Now, set aside the fact that it comes from Windows
XP, and only focus on the amount of colors used...you can easily tell it's
quite a bit more than 256. There are blends and color mixes which make the
image look nice to the eye and not watercolored or anything.
Compare that to ANY icon which is placed on the Microsoft Office Shortcut
Bar. it changes the look of the icon to be a 256 color image instead of the
regular look.
Ugh this is hard to explain without seeing it. Can I just send a screenshot
so you can look at it? Bottom line, anything within Microsoft Office XP
seems to be limited to 256 colors and it doesn't match my 16,000 colors plus
of the rest of my OS.
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <7521...@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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Greg Chapman
says...
> *sigh* let's take the Windows XP icon version of "My Computer", I'm sure
> you're familiar with it. Now, set aside the fact that it comes from Windows
> XP, and only focus on the amount of colors used...you can easily tell it's
> quite a bit more than 256. There are blends and color mixes which make the
> image look nice to the eye and not watercolored or anything.
>
> Compare that to ANY icon which is placed on the Microsoft Office Shortcut
> Bar. it changes the look of the icon to be a 256 color image instead of the
> regular look.
>
> Ugh this is hard to explain without seeing it. Can I just send a screenshot
> so you can look at it? Bottom line, anything within Microsoft Office XP
> seems to be limited to 256 colors and it doesn't match my 16,000 colors plus
> of the rest of my OS.
>
Pardon me for jumping in, please. The difference is fairly easily
explained. Icon standards are for 16 and 32 pixels dimensionally and up
to 256 colors. Many executables contain their own icons internally and
those can be chosen by referencing an index number. The OS chooses the
"My Computer" icon in consideration of the color depth of your current
display.
The Office Shortcut bar, however, limits itself to hosting an 8 bit
color depth. I can see where you'd like to see it match the rest of the
environment but I don't see how that will happen until its developers
allow it to choose other than the default icon of each app and those
defaults are not built with that high color depth deliberately.
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Greg Chapman - MSMVP
Marcus, Digital Legacy Inc.
So then let me ask you this.
When I had Microsoft Office 2000 on my other computer at work (Dell Pentium
3 24-bit color same resolution), the icons were fine, especially on the
toolbar. This was, of course, running Windows 98 and/or NT, and it looked
fine. This was especially true after I downloaded the Font Smoothing from
the Office home page.
I just would expect that the same would be true cross-OS (98 vs. XP or NT
vs. XP).
"Greg Chapman" <gr...@nomousetraxspam.com> wrote in message
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Greg Chapman
changing. Is that right? <g>
Seriously, I'm getting more out your reply than your original. Do you
happen to know whether your XP system is using the Font Smoothing option
right now or is it using the ClearType settings?
Greg
In article <eyWCkXTgBHA.2156@tkmsftngp05>, mar...@digital-legacy.net
says...
> Oh ok, that's what I needed to know.
>
> So then let me ask you this.
>
> When I had Microsoft Office 2000 on my other computer at work (Dell Pentium
> 3 24-bit color same resolution), the icons were fine, especially on the
> toolbar. This was, of course, running Windows 98 and/or NT, and it looked
> fine. This was especially true after I downloaded the Font Smoothing from
> the Office home page.
>
> I just would expect that the same would be true cross-OS (98 vs. XP or NT
> vs. XP).
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