Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!tris
From: tris@alzabo.uucp (Tris Orendorff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: TIF -> BMP or PCX -> BMP
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.185518.13446@alzabo.uucp>
Date: 4 Nov 90 18:55:18 GMT
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Binoy_James_Aa@f110.n771.z3.fidonet.gen.nz (Binoy James Aa) writes:

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>From: bjames@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Binoy James [890904])

>Hi folks,

>Another question.  Is there a program that will convert a scanned TIFF 
>file
>to a windows 3.0 bitmap (ie, desktop background)

>I tried Grafworkshop 4.6 and it won't let me save a tif file to a 
>windows bmp
>file, it says it can't create a .bmp file!  So then I converted it to 
>gif, 
>using gws, then using gif2bmp, I got a bmp file but it looked really 
>bad!

I haven't been able to get graphics workshop to save a 256 shade
.bmp file either.  However, you can save it as a .pcx file and
convert it using the paint program supplied with Windows 3.

-- 
				Sincerely Yours
				Tris Orendorff
				tris@alzabo.uucp
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