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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce
Message-ID: <1991May24.175746.20504@convex.com>
Date: 24 May 91 17:57:46 GMT
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In article <1991May24.013706.26825@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
                                  [...]
>is).  The images were converted to GIF, many miles across the continent,
>then modem'd to _MicroTimes_ for further conversion (which can only
>result in image degradation).
>
>Yet this is most certainly their own fault, as apparently IFF converters
>DO exist somewhere for the Mac.  They should be more in tune.

Actually, I would hope that file conversion routines would get shipped with
the Toaster.  Being "open" to the world of options that a customer might want
to take advantage of is part of the responsiveness that any good company
should have towards its customers.  I think it is unfortunate that many
Amiga customers have to dig up their own conversion utilities.  If I was
selling an expensive peripheral like the Toaster I would certainly make sure
that simple utilities were available to make its output jive with as many
platforms as possible.

Remember - proprietary formats: Baaaaad
         - open standards: Gooooood

;^)

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