Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!alan.aux.apple.com!abm From: abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: PBMPlus to MacPaint Problem Message-ID: <12314@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 27 Feb 91 20:10:49 GMT References: Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Reply-To: abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms) Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 36 In article , barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: |> I am looking for a way to go from the PBMPlus Raster Image format into |> MacPaint. I used mactomacp, and checked it wuth xloadimage. Sure |> enough - a MacPaint formated file. |> |> Now how to I get it onto a Macintosh? |> |> The MacBinary header is wrong. Sure enough, the sources of pbmtomacp |> show the code trying to put the name of the file in the header, but |> after setting the variable, it never uses it. So the header never has |> the name of the file, let alone the creator, type, etc. |> |> I even tried to Run MacX and capture the image, but it's too big. Actually, it won't be too big if you give MacX a LOT of memory. Do you want to put it into MacPaint eventually? If so, make sure you give MacPaint a lot of memory too. (Use Get Info in Finder to set the memory size to add a few megabytes for luck.) |> (I guess that tells me a MacPaint format isn't going to work.) Not necessarily. It ought to. Good luck. Oh, one more thing. If it is truly a monochrome raster image you're grabbing, set your screen in 1 bit per pixel mode using the Monitors Control Panel thingie. That saves a lot of space and might make it work faster and better. |> -- |> Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett -- Alan Mimms (alan@apple.com, ...!apple!alan) | My opinions are generally A/UX X group | pretty worthless, but Apple Computer | they *are* my own... "Laugha whila you can, monkey boy..." -- John Whorfin in Buckaroo Banzai "Never rub another man's rhubarb" -- The Joker in BatMan