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From: jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: What are GEM.IMG files?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 14:56:06 GMT
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In article <743@anagld.UUCP> rcsmith@anagld.UUCP (Ray Smith) writes:
>
>One of the folks I work with has prepared a bunch of stuff using
>GEM on an IBM PC compatitable. He wants to print them off on our Mac
>connected Laser Printer. So I thought great lets use PBM-PLUS and convert
>them from GEM to MACPAINT. Well when I went to translate the files PBM
>required the GEM files be in a .img format and mine evidently weren't.
>Would someone please explain to me what the .img format is compared to the
>GEM format we have and also tell me if there is a way to convert from
>what we have to the other.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Ray
>
GEM files are vector-based graphic files and IMG are bit-mapped.  The
only way I know of (for lack of a utility pgm to do this) to convert GEM
drawings for output on a PostScript device is to use DRI's Artline drawing
program and export to Encapsulated PostScript, then transfer it to the
Mac system.


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