anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) (11/15/89)
Just a quick question - have many people used
the Mac<-->Geos program from Joe Buckley that
I posted here? I have used it a fair amount,
but in all cases have used the 'MacPaint' images
on a Sun Workstation. When I have tried to view
the images on a REAL MacIntosh, I am missing the
proper resource fork (= the icon/info block in
Geos). Has anyone solved this problem? If so
how? Joe tells me now that he really wrote it
for a AMAX (Mac Emulator) on an Amiga and did
not care if a true Mac could read it....
Thanks E-Mail or posting are fine, but posting
would help more people, I think...
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------JKT100@PSUVM.BITNET (Kurt Tappe) (11/19/89)
In article <1714@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, (Joel Peter Anderson) says: > >... When I have tried to view the images on >a REAL MacIntosh, I am missing the proper >resource fork. I believe you can reconstruct this information by using MacTools. If you enter MacTools, highlight the file, and choose InfoEdit File, it will prompt you for the filename, and two other pieces of info, "File Type" and "File Creator." Enter these 4-character codes into those spots to turn the document into a Macpaint file: Type: PNTG Creator: MPNT Then exit out of Tools and save the info if prompted (depending on what version of MacTools you are using.) Now this may or may not change the icon once you are back at the desktop, depending on whether you have ever had another MacPaint file on that disk to install the icon in the desktop file. Anyway, the file should now be readable by MacPaint. Let me know if this works for ya! :-) Kurt
anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) (11/20/89)
Since we last wrote...
Randy Winchester wrote me (thanks randy) to note that he
had been a beta tester for the MAC<-->GEO/Paint conversion software.
He said, and I tried, that you should download the Geos->Mac converted
MacPaint picture as a 'MacBinary'. The Resource fork >IS< contained
in the file. Non-Mac computers (I assume) such as the Sun I use at
work are savvy to this and skip the resource fork portion of
the MacPaint image. This has been marginally successful - the image
is now recognized as a MacPaint image, but has a few errors... this may
be the result of other factors, which I will be toying with...
BTW - the other issue lately discussed, namely that of GeoWrite
conversion, is true - I have successfully printed a GeoWrite doc
on our Sun LaserWriter (really an Apple Laserwriter in disguise).
The main trick is 1) use the PS.patch to 'fix' your copy of GeoLaser,
(that was posted here by some well meaning hacker wasn't it?)
2)printing your file with that (produces a sequential text postscript file)
and 3)sending that file to a computer that can print it as postscript.
At my site I must add a header to the file for it to be recognized
properly - something like:
%!PS-Adobe-1.0
%%Creator: ssd1a:anderson (Joel Anderson)
%%Title: stdin
%%CreationDate: Mon Nov 20 08:56:20 1989
%%DocumentFonts: Times-Roman Times-Italic Times-Bold Symbol Times-Roman DIThacks
%%Pages: (atend)
%%EndComments
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