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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GIFs, Ventura, etc.
Message-ID: <1406@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 15:22:22 GMT
References: <3403@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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In article <3403@nunki.usc.edu>, sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant) writes:
> 
> In the main, digitised pictures which i take off the USC BBS are GIF
> files.  Any ideas on what i could do with these pictures (some of them
> in really high resolution) in Ventura?  What are the programs which
> work with Ventura on graphics, and could one convert GIFs to one of
> these if not directly usable?

A shareware program called EASEL will convert .gif to .pcx (paintbrush)
format... as well as several others... the drawback is EASEL requires
MS Windows... if you have paintbrusch you could also load FRIEZE and
then view your .gif with some gif viewer and hit print-screen to activate
frieze, and s to save the picture in .pcx format.

> What exactly is the IMG format used by Ventura?

.img is the GEM raster format as used by GEM PAINT... if your serious about
Ventura you may want to acquire a copy of GEM and GEM PAINT or GEM DRAW
to work with... I find they are excellent programs.... if you hunt around
conputer shows or have a used software store in your area you might be
able to find GEM 1.1, which is GEM before Apple's quasi-legal harassment
forced DRI to change GEM into the horrible interface it is today... oh well
so much for free enterprise!

Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center