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From: scott@tuna.cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GIF viewers
Keywords: IFF
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Date: 11 Jun 89 19:32:48 GMT
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>In article <9083@xanth.cs.odu.edu> scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) writes:
>>MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT WITH THE ST GRAPHICS IS THAT I CAN GET ANYTHING I WANT
>>TO MY ST... EVEN THOUGH THE METHOD MIGHT BE RIDICULOUS (SEE ABOVE)...
>>BUT I CANT GET PICS FROM MY ST BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM!

As a follow-up..

I have since learned that DEGAS-ELITE will SAVE in IFF format.
DIGISPEC.PRG will convert [ GIF <-> SPECTRUM ]
GIFSPC.PRG and IFFSPC.PRG will convert [ GIF <-> SPECTRUM ]
And that some program under the Spectrum package will convert [ SPC <-> .PI1 ]
[ BUT I DONT HAVE SPECTRUM ]
Anyway, I have Fuzzy Bitmaps for the sun... There is a program that is called
``fbext'' that will resize bitmaps [ fbext -w320 -h200 ].  There is another
program in this smae package ``fbquant'' that will quantisize colors
[ fbquant -c16  will convert and 8 plane picture to a 4 plane picture].  This
package will read/write SUN COLOR RASTER, GIF, IFF.

YES.

clr2gray < picture.gif | fbext -w320 -h200 | fbquant -c16 -I > picture.iff

and then I can use PICSWITCH7.PRG to read in the IFF file and convert it to 
.PI1 .PI2 .PI3 or whatever.

I am happy now.  Altought I would like to get my hands on a program that 
will convert over to my new format.... PBX  [ QUANTUM PAINT ANYONE? ]

   Scott D. Yelich                           scott@cs.odu.edu  [128.82.8.1]