Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!littlei!donk!pmb
From: pmb@donk.UUCP (pmb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need to convert from Mac PageMaker to PC IWPS.
Message-ID: <329@donk.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 22:07:24 GMT
References: <8906281728.AA13320@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: pmb@orion1.hf.intel.com (Patti Beadles)
Organization: DTE, Intel Corporation; Hillsboro, OR
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In article <8906281728.AA13320@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MILES@CC.USU.EDU (Miles Johnson) writes:
>mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu(Mark H. Anbinder) said:
>   We thought of trying PC Pagemaker, also of routing it thru Mac PICT format.
>The sticking point is we don't know of any way to get to the final .PCX
>format for IWPS.  We can get the Mac Pagemaker data to a variety of formats
>BUT we can't make the final conversion to IWPS.

>   IWPS is a product of IBM.  It is an 'authoring' language, used to control
>videodisks.  It allows you to produce videodisk presentations that combine
>computer graphics, keyboard input and videodisk effects.

It's been a while since I've used IWPS, but I'm quite familiar with the
situation.  I've authored quite a few programs using IWPS, and imported many
more than my fair share of graphics into it.

As a quick and dirty suggestion, how about using one of the programs that
displays Mac graphics on the PC, and using PC Paintbrush's FRIEZE program
to capture them.  This is going to be an incredible, horrendous, monstrous
pain in the wazoo, but if you do it right, you'll only have to do it once.
From there you can use IWPS's conversion program to get them into the
presentation, and then you can author your little heart out.  Of course,
when somebody comes back and says they don't like the angle of that line on
the picture of that computer over there (which is on 200 of the graphics in
the presentation, of course) you'll have to go back and do it again.