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From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Creating .wpg file for WP 5.1
Message-ID: <1991May23.090201.439@sc2a.unige.ch>
Date: 23 May 91 07:02:01 GMT
References: <3042@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <3042@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
> Well, I've  RTFM'd until I'm blue in the face, and can't figure out
> the answer to this.  So perhaps one of the experts will be good enough
> to give some advice.
> 
> [...]
> 
> THE QUESTION:  We have lots of Macintoshes around here, with paintbrush
> programs.  Does anyone know if I can just use THOSE to create a bitmap
> file instead?  Or is WP 5.1 particular about it being only from the
> PC Paintbrush program?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.

Well, maybe it's not in the FM, but if you type `graphcnv /h', you will see
a help message listing MacIntosh paint as one of the acceptable formats to
be converted to *.wpg.  Else, if you can't convert to one of the formats
listed (including postscript and HPGL output files), you might try to take
a look at Simtel20 or some such archive site and check the various graphic
converters.  I think I remember a *.gif to *.wpg converter, if it wasn't part
of some commercial package?

Hope this helps,

Markus G. Fischer, Dept of Anthropology, Geneva CH       fisher@sc2a.unige.ch