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From: jss@cbmvax.UUCP (John Schilling QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Gif to IFF
Message-ID: <6646@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 13:33:40 GMT
References: <4330@alvin.mcnc.org> <6930@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: jss@cbmvax.UUCP (John Schilling QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <6930@saturn.ucsc.edu> odin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jon Granrose) writes:
>In article <4330@alvin.mcnc.org> raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams) writes:
>>
>>	I hate to bring this up, since I think it's been talked about before,
>>but does anybody have a file to transfer GIF files to IFF so I can import
>>them into Professional Page?
>
>	I don't think there actually is a program to do this.  I have looked
>on Compuserve (the originator of the GIF protocol) and not been able to find
>one.  Here are UCSC, we had a discussion in forum about GIF and how to get it
>to IFF and settled on some GIF display combined with a screen grabber program.
>Why should this be necessary?  I am not a proficient Amiga programmer (I'm
>still learning Unix) but I would not think it would be too hard of a program
>to write.  It would definately make things easier on people who handle lots
>of GIf images.  Any comments?
>
>Jon
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In the COMPUSERVE Graphics FORUM you will find a program called AMGIF.
This program converts IFF to GIF.  It WILL Convert HAM to 256  also.
{assuming that the HAM Image is 320X200.  There is also a program,
called Giffy I beleave, that will convert 256 GIF to IFF-HAM.

				John Schilling, QA
				CBM, Inc.

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