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From: marksm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint III
Message-ID: <1339@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Sep 89 10:13:59 GMT
References: <4751@brains.UUCP>
Reply-To: marksm@syma.susx.ac.uk (Mark S Madsen)
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In article <4751@brains.UUCP> michael_dinn%brains@iisat.UUCP writes:
 (In reply to someone whose name is now lost in mists of the net :-)
> >This is a repost: Can anyone tell me how to convert DPaint III's IFF files
> >to the ones more readable by other program??  In particular, it'd be nice
> >to have IFF2PS and IFF2GIF work.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Dpaint III (And Photon Paint) store their pictures in IFF ACBM format. What
> 99% of all programs expect is IFF ILBM format. To convert, I use MultiView

Excuse me if the following is mistaken or stupid, please, because I have
never actually had to do such a conversion myself before.

If the problem is in converting from ACBM to ILBM, then isn't there a
little AmigaBASIC program in the BasicDemos drawer of every Extras
diskette that does just this? I thought it was named something like

	"LoadACBMsaveILBM" 

or something like that. If it's the one I think it is, then it includes
quite a lot of REMarks that should enable anyone to figure out how to
work it.

Disclaimer: a) I may be wrong.
            b) The conversion may go the wrong way.
            c) The suggested solution may not be sufficiently hi-tech
	       to suit the readership of this group.

BUT: I hope it helps, anyway.

>   -===------===-    From Michael Dinn at Cerebral Cortex BBS System

Mark.
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