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From: thomas@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Thomas Summerall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac II Color Graphics Standard?
Message-ID: <7863@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 5 Jan 88 02:45:18 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: Mac II, Color

Is there a standard way to move color/gray scale images from one graphics
program to another on the Mac II?  I was used to the macpaint format
standard on my old 512ke, so when I moved up to the Mac II I was surprised
to find that almost every color/gray scale program I have seen seems to
store its images using radically different formats.  These include PixelPaint,
the Paris color demo which shows ray-traced images, ImageStudio, etc...

I haven't been able to get a copy of Inside Mac vol 5 yet, so I am unfamiliar
with different formats.  (I don't even know what a clut is, but from my appleII
programming experience I assume it stands for Color LookUp Table...)

Is there a standard?  Can an image be ported from one program to another in
screen-sized chunks using an FKEY similar to the one which saved B&W mac
screens to disk, except do it in a standard format?  Is there such a thing as
a color PICT that any type of color image could be translated to?

So Many Questions...So Little Documentation...

Thanks in advance...

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