Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!wyn386!wybbs!meyers From: meyers@wybbs.mi.org (John Meyers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: GIF viewing again and again Message-ID: <401@wybbs.mi.org> Date: 24 Aug 90 18:38:44 GMT References: <9008231420.AA18755@jade.berkeley.edu> Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison MI Lines: 49 In article <9008231420.AA18755@jade.berkeley.edu>, S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes: > On 23 Aug 90 10:35:08 GMT you said: > >In article <5338@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett) writes: > >>I have just discovered the world of the GIF. The graphic standard that allows > >> > >> VirtGIF (Best of the lot but slow and no save) ^^ ^^^^ The registered version does. > > > >I use only VirtGIF and it's really great! However I cannot get an IFF > >conversion? Is there a way? > >In the documentation of VirtGIF some possible improvements are > >mentioned! Is there a new version in preparation? > > You can save an IFF picture. You can grab the screen with ScreenX or Grabbit. > I prefer ScreenX. You just pick the screen you want to save and hit the > save screen button. If the image from VirtGIF is a superbitmap you can just > scroll around the screen and save until you have the whole image. Then put > all the pieces together with a paint program. Hope this helps.... Or to make things easier, you can just register it. Instead of saving 6 IFF pictures to capture a whole 800x1024 screen, you can save it in ONE superbitmap file. No need to paste anything together. The program will even handle HUGE pictures. I've viewed and saved 800X1300 files, no problem. (On my "wimpy" 1 meg 500, 512K chip, no less.) I will admit that it takes a while to load larger files into memory, but I don't believe there are any other GIF viewers that allow you to scroll around the picture, and then save the WHOLE picture into a single file. The moral of the story? VirtGIF 2.0 will allow one to save superbitmap files into one IFF file. All that for $10-15. (And I'm a poor college student. ;-) You just have to register it, which is what you are supposed to do if you plan on using it, anyway. > ||---Brian Wright | / / || > ||---s36666wb@etsuacad.etsu.edu | \ \/ / Only Amiga || > ||---Commercial Artist and Amigaphile| \/\/ Makes It Possible!! || DISCLAIMER : I am in no way affiliated with the author of VirtGIF, other than being a satisfied customer. John -- __ , |John M. Meyers _/ meyers@wybbs.UUCP (_/_ / /)) _ _ _ _ | \ sharkey!wybbs.mi.org!meyers _/(//)/) / / (-'(/(-'/ ' '-,| "I only laughed away your tears, (/""""""""""""""(_/"""""""""" | but even jesters cry!" - Fish