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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: graphic file interchange format
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Date: 1 Jan 88 12:49:46 GMT
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In article <782@daisy.UUCP> turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes:
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>Is there a single format or at least a conversion program that will
>let me use a picture file generated on a pc on a mac or atari.st or
>any osther permutattion of machines ????

Most of the machines have programs that will convert a number of foreign
format to "native". This does not help much in swapping them back, however.

Computer Shopper ran a recent feature on this exact topic.  (December 87
or some issue close to that).

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As far as personal experience, the only single, general** picture format I
have seen supported on all the machines above is IFF picture files (ILBM).
This format was born with the Amiga computer, and is good enough to have
traveled to other machines.

** By general I mean several things: 
1> Must handle color (of *at least* 8 bits per pixel, if the source image is
   that deep).
2> Must handle arbitrary sized bitmaps.

Several of the other graphic interchange formats fail to pass those two
simple tests.

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