sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant) (04/06/89)
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? If there is no standard PD program to do the conversion, is it very hard to write one? (a thousand lines of Turbo Pascal a night!) What exactly is the IMG format used by Ventura? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're never too old to have a happy childhood. ajay shah (213)745-2923 or sawant@nunki.usc.edu _______________________________________________________________________________
japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) (04/06/89)
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