Talk:PCX

message: This is a nice article, but too technical, or at least technical without explanations for the casual reader. Any experts feel like updating this? Wyatt Riot 22:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Your high IQ is certainly not in evidence, VFD642.  Lack of punctuation and capitalization makes your comment almost incomprehensible.—QuicksilverT @ 23:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too technical 

message: I comparison with BMP would be very helpful. –Wulf (talk) 21:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this a common Wikipedia thing? If so I'd be happy to do it. Don't understand why BMP though? Why not JPG, PNG or GIF? BMP dosen't have many features to compare with. 83.216.149.7 (talk) 19:54, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The paint program bundled with Windows 3.1 saved and loaded .BMP and .PCX so BMP and PCX are kinda linked in a lot of folks' minds. Also PCX was the only compressed format saved by the original Windows paint program. Naaman Brown (talk) 19:25, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They're also quite similar formats that do the same job as each other under different names, just with slight differences... like the position of the pallette data and so forth. I think BMP only does 1, 4, 8 and 24 bit (plus 4 & 8 bit RLE of it's own different design, later) single plane storage for a start, so it's slightly less efficient for 4 and 8 color images (rare as they are). Microsoft maybe just wanted something that did much the same as ZSoft's format without having to owe them any particular allegience for having PCX image code underpinning their operating system and apps instead of just having Paint compatible with it... or putting much work into it :)77.102.101.220 (talk) 20:29, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison with BMP 

message: The description of PCX's compression confuses bytes with pixels and color values. All PCX files uses the same compression method, which works on bytes. A byte may contain several pixels or only part of a pixel. The way this is written is only valid for 8-bit indexed PCX files.83.216.149.7 (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bytes, palette indices or pixels? 

message: Please do not change the run length for TGA to 127. TGA uses 7 bits to indicate a run length, it does not allow zero length runs so the value zero indicates a run length of one and the value 127 indicates a run length of 128.--83.216.149.7 (talk) 18:46, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  TGA has a run length of 128 

message: A section for Viewers has been added to this article. It says PCX is supported by many programs but only mentions IrfanView by name.  As such it appears to be advertising IrfanView in some sense. Given the lack of information I don't see the purpose for a viewers section in this article, there isn't a corresponding section in other image file articles on Wikipedia so I have removed this section.87.115.120.124 (talk) 12:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, there is a link to proprietary viewer for Windows. Unlikely it adds much value to the article. Remove?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.242.97.19 (talk) 12:50, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viewer Section 

message: Is there a particular reason that the "green" row has only 8 Gs whereas the other rows have 9 Rs, Bs or As?82.12.109.64 (talk) 20:26, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram of "rows"