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From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TIFF on a GS
Keywords: TIFF, GS
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.144946.24973@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 90 14:49:46 GMT
References: <574@dg.dg.com>
Reply-To: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In article <574@dg.dg.com> bruce@archive.rtp.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) writes:
>  Ive been using a scanner to scan in images of all kinds on my PC for use
>with my GS and Mac.  The problem I have is that the scanner only generates
>TIFF files.  Is there any program around (PD/Shareware/commercial) that can
>convert TIFF into something more readable like GIF or PICT or SHR??
>  Are there any TIFF readers for the GS?  Am I asking too much???

To my knowledge, there are no TIFF conversion utilities for the IIGS.
Your alternatives are:

1) Convert TIFF to GIF on the PC.  There are many graphics conversion
   utilities available for the PC.  Unfortunately, I don't have any
   of them.  Your scanner software probably has the option of saving
   files in PCX or GEM or IMG format...these can be readily converted
   to GIF by most popular GIF utilities on the PC.

2) Convert TIFF to Whatever on the Macintosh.  There must be utilities
   available...I don't know the names of them, though.

3) Try using some of the bit and pixelmap utilities available out
   on the net.  Go forth and get PBMPLUS, FBM, or one of the TIFF
   processing packages.  You can get the list of sites that carry
   these utilities from comp.graphic's "Frequently Asked Questions"
   posting.  Whatever you do, DON'T post the request to comp.graphics.
   They really hate those kind of questions.

   Alternatively, you can ask about TIFF conversion on alt.graphics.
   pixutils.
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