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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore and "standards"
Message-ID: <1672@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 91 19:56:43 GMT
References: <639@cbmger.UUCP> <406Zu1w163w@exactus.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <406Zu1w163w@exactus.UUCP> dave@exactus.UUCP (Dave) writes:
>peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>
>> Huh? The IFF *IS* a standard well alive and further spreading.
>> If it would be limited to the Amiga world, who would care?
>
>There are some programs for the IBM that do support the IFF standard,
>among them, the best graphics converter I have ever seen, Hijaak 2.0
>not only converts IFF to just about any format (including PCX, GIF, TIFF,
>MacPaint, EPS, HPGL, WPG just to name a few), it does the convertion in
>just a few seconds. Very amazing program.

Actually, PC programs are supporting IFF but only the simple IFF modes
like 2 to 32 colors. PC programs do not, in general, understand EHB or
HAM files and also know nothing of IFF24. 

To convert a 32 color IFF to a 32 color PCX should not take *more* than
a few seconds. 

>And let's not forget that Electronic Arts has Deluxe Paint II Enhanced
>available for the PC, which is IFF compatible.

DPIIe also has its own 8 bit variant of IFF which is not backwards 
compatible with IFF. They use it when saving 256 color images. This
is fully supported in our TAD and ADPro. 

>Another program that does a job at handling IFF pictures is the Shareware
>Picture Viewer VPIC.

Again, very limited IFF support. 

The best bet for Amiga to/from Anything image conversion is our ADPro. 
Recently released, it comes with input and output support for many non-Amiga
formats and still others are available optionally. And of course, it does
understand all IFF variations.

pk

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