Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!taob
From: taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao)
Subject: 3200 -> gif
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Tue, 07 May 91 15:20:38 EDT
Message-ID: <4wcL21w162w@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
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From kolesar@plains.NoDak.edu (Joe Kolesar):

> The author was supposed to incorporate a lot of new features into
> the program, and I heard he even put in an IFF->GS converter.

    Yes, you can convert Amiga IFF as well as several IBM graphic formats 
(DeluxePaint II IFF, PC Paintbrush .PCX files, and a few others which escape 
me at the moment).  I don't have SC 3.0 myself, so I can't give you a featre 
list.  It looks a lot like SHRConvert 2.1 (with the three windows), but the 
list of conversions is MUCH more impressive.  There is even support for TIFF 
files created by PageMaker 4.0 on the Mac!

> Does anyone with a copy know what's new with SC 3.0 compared to
> SHRConvert v2.1?

    This is basically what Jason Harper wrote in the "What's New?" section 
of the help: "There have been too many changes made to the last shareware 
version of SHRConvert 2.1 to list here.  In future versions, this page will 
list changes from the previous version."  That is NO understatement.  Jason 
has included a plethora of dithering/re-mapping/transformation algorithms to 
make your conversions as nice as possible.  320-mode, 640-mode, mixed 
resolutions, multi-palettes, etc.  Unfortunately, it does not support 
3200-colour output yet (but you can convert 3200-colour images into rahther 
nice-looking 256-colour graphics for startup screens).

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