Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!uunet!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce Message-ID: <1991May23.162819.12502@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 23 May 91 16:28:19 GMT References: <1991May22.211703.22445@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991May22.222801.4049@convex.com> <1991May23.012705.24776@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991May23.083717.1055@cs.ruu.nl> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 26 ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes: >In <1991May23.012705.24776@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes: >>Since when? I know of *no* IFF viewers/soundplayers or converters for >>the Mac. Pictures must be converted to GIF on the Amy to be viewed by a >>Mac (I don't know about the IBM). Is there an Amiga file manager on the >>Mac or the IBM, like Mac2DOS or MessyFileSystem on the Amy? As far as I >>know, it's a one-way trip. Alternate file formats must be managed by >>the Amiga. >[ There is a product for the Macintosh that can convert/edit/whatever IFF > graphics (plus a dozen others like GIF, PIC, Targa etc.), it was tested in a > recent issue of the Personal Computer Magazine (the Dutch equivalent of Byte), > and was praised like the Messiah. (Sort of like The Art Department > Professional) ] This is probably Adobe Photoshop, which seems to be able to import and export to almost any graphics file format... it's also a pretty cool 24-bit retouching program to boot. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Murphy's Law of Intelism: Just when you thought Intel had done everything possible to pervert the course of computer architecture, they bring out the 860