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Hi all,
The problem was the amount of colors in the new file...
Thank you all!
First of all I'm looking for advice and in the best case a BMP files info extraction tool, I'm not asking about a programin solution...
I'm updating the logo in the invoice report, the current one is an old file that is the preview of the final logo we bought and we want to get the final one in our documentations...
The issue here is that when we try to print the invoice with the new logo, we print it to a PDF file, it looks blurry (in the display and in the paper).
When we use the old logo it gets printed correctly...
How would you see the differences between the BMP files we are using?
Right clicking the file and getting properties is giving me 180x180pixels and 24Bits deep in both files...
What else can be different to get this result?
Thank you all!
modified 9-Mar-18 5:27am.
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Can you stick 'em both up on Dropbox?
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Of course I can, but in OneDrive... I hope this won't be a problem...
Two BMP files...[^]
Logo.bmp works.
LogoLW.bmp doesn't.
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From what I can see, the two files are identical in terms of metadata: 180x180, 96.012 ppi, RGB 8 bits/channel.
But... the LW version has a smaller image in the centre of the BPM (i.e. more white space round it), and the non-LW version has a "pinkish" colour drop shadow (#FFDBF2) to the left of the text, while the anti-aliasing on the LW version is more pronounced.
I'd guess that the LW version non-text part would look more blurred if it gets size changed, while the non-LW might get a little nasty on the text.
Personally, I try to create BIG versions of logos, and then use the presentation app to reduce them in size - I hate "blowing up" images, they never look right!
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Yes, that's what I made, we got a vecorial file and then I scaled it to the right size.
The issue was with the amount of colors... now reduced at 256 it works well...
I had no idea that one could specify the amount of colors... 
Thank you!
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I used IrfanView - information to compare both files, they are almost identical except for the 'Number of unique colors'. logoLW.bmp has 1973, logo.bmp has only 685 unique colors.
The layout is a bit different, the logo in logo.bmp is a bit larger.
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I'll try to specify somewhere the number of colours... 
I have to see how to do it...
Thank you!
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In IrfanView, which is a free tool, you can do this with 'Image - Decrease color depth - Custom', with a maximum of 256 colors, but this will work for your logo I think 
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Done, it worked like charm! 
Thank you!
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I have used IfranView like Rick and showed them zoomed side by side.
The colours in the company name of the LW logo are not as unique as in the old logo (more colours) and the text is blurry.
Both logos look like being hand made and scanned. I suggest to re-create the logo using a DTP or painting application.
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Both come from a vectorial file... probably the conversion has not been the best one...
I'll try to improve that... now that I know that the amount of colors is important for that old software...
Thank you for the recommendation!
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You are welcome.
My hand made assumption was mainly from the old logo which contains some "noses". You might try to convert the vector format again. A fixed sized logo should be as sharp as possible and contain only unique colours (besides it contains colour gradients or a blurry effect is wanted).
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ImageJ, subtract Image.
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Pay trio for clip art? (7)
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Topiary - anagram (Clip art  very good..)
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Beat me by a gnat's wotsit!
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IS there an art, like topiary, of cutting gnat's whiskers?
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I wasn't actually thinking of whiskers but I'm sure that there's some hipster establishment in London that provides that very service.
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Only if they are Artisan, organic gnats.
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Congratulations - you are up Monday!
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wtf - you've done it to me again! What happened to Thursday?!!
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You too?
The late, great DNA: "This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
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OriginalGriff wrote: The late, great DNA: "This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
--- The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
And how old (in years) will that quote be in two years time?
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DNA and TP quotes are timeless.
(As are all "Parrot" and "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch quotes from Monty Python")
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