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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: Converting MacPaint file to something my GS can display
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Date: 27 Jan 91 09:34:33 GMT
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My usual procedure with scanning images is to NOT save in MacPaint format if
you want to get the file off the Mac and onto a different machine. A better
procedure is to save as PICT and convert it to a GIF on the Mac and then decode
the GIF on your GS (with GIF3200 or LHG when I get it past 'slideshow' and
into 'converter').

Problem: if you are using AppleScan, the PICTs will be saved with scale info
so that if you didn't scan at 72 dpi, the mac programs will try to rescale
them so that they are the same size as the original, when we just want pixel
to pixel. What I've had to do with AppleScan is to save as TIFF, and read that
into NCSA Image, save as a PICT and then load the PICT into GIFfer. Bleah.

SHRConvert I believe can only handle B&W MacPaint files so if the MacPaint's
are color or gray scale then you are sort of forced to use a format other
than MacPaint for the conversion...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu