Sounds to me like pretty deep kim-chee. You can let MetaCard take
over the colormap (set the property "privateColors" to true), but this
will cause the screen to "go technicolor" every time you change the
focused window. Give this a try, but don't be surprised if the other
applications looks pretty bad when MetaCard has the focus.
The best solution is to have the other application not be so greedy.
Tell them to take 128 colors and leave the rest alone. Then use
ppmquant (or another utility) to reduce the number of colors your
images use.
Second best would be to have them define a standard (and static)
colormap which you would process all your images to use (MetaCard does
remapping automatically, but just does closest-match substitution.
There are image processing applications that will do dithering which
looks much better). In either case, you'll probably have to reimport
all your images :-(
Scott
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