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From: jd231825@longs.lance.Colostate.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Detweiler)
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Subject: Re: Startup screen
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In-reply-to: schriste@uceng.UC.EDU's message of 27 Jul 90 21:49:29 GMT

In article <5635@uceng.UC.EDU> schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:


	   Can someone tell me how to convert a MacPaint-type 
   picture to the Mac startup screen?

		   Thanks,
			   Steven


Steven,

There are quite a few ways of going about this, but my favorite way is
to use a public domain program called "Viewpaint" to make a
startupscreen from a Macpaint file.  You load your paint file into
Viewpaint, and once you get it centered on the screen just the way you
like it, you hit "enter" from the numeric keypad.  It will then save
it as a StartupScreen (be sure to save it in your system folder).  I
haven't seen this program at any ftp sites, so if you have problems
finding it from some PD source, write to me and I can send it to you.

Superpaint will also save macpaint files as StartupScreens, but I
don't know if you have this program.

These are the only two programs that come to mind that easily create
StartupScreens.  By the way, if you want to make a startupscreen for a
monitor other than the standard SE size monditor, you have to go about
it completely differently.  Let me know if you need to do it for a
larger monitor.

Have fun,

Jeff