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From: svpillay@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: PBM to MacPaint/PICT conversion - any ideas?
Message-ID: <2528@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 88 04:36:22 GMT
Reply-To: svpillay@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay)
Organization: The Institution for the Temporarily Intelligent
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Keywords: X-windows, Macintosh


I have recently begun using a Sun 3 running X-Windows and have liked
some of the bitmapped background screens that came with the package. I
also use a Mac II and would like to move copies of these bitmap files to
the Mac in a Macintosh-readable format (preferably PICT since that
wouldn't limit me to the single page MacPaint format, but I'll take that
too if I can get it).
	All of this is new territory to me, so I may have some of the
facts slightly messed up. Here's what I got:
* The X-Windows bitmaps are in a format called "xbm".
* Most of these originated in a somewhat generic format called "pbm" (as
in "portable bitmap").
* We already have working copies of programs that will read a MacPaint
file as input and convert these to pbm, and read pbm and convert these
to xbm.
* We can convert from xbm to pbm, but the buck stops there. There is no
pbm to MacPaint conversion facility.
	Any ideas? Please email responses. I will post them if there is
sufficient interest.
						Kanthan.


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