jk44+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Knight) (02/28/90)
Help! I need to convert some color PICT images (output by a Mac II) to something other machines will understand. GIF is what I eventually want to end up with, but I'll take anything right now... BTW: PBMplus, FBM and the Utah toolkit don't seem to like color PICT images. Jack Knight ARPA: jk44@andrew.cmu.edu *************************
klong@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long) (02/28/90)
In article <8Zuf_nK00WB7QZ7kQP@andrew.cmu.edu> jk44+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Knight) writes: >Help! I need to convert some color PICT images (output by a Mac II) to >something other machines will understand. GIF is what I eventually want to >end up with, but I'll take anything right now... You want the Giffer (1.0 or more), a Mac application that among other things reads PICT2 images (color PICT), and writes them out as GIF images. It's pretty slow on an 8-bit 640x480 image (about 2 minutes to convert), but once you get it in GIF format, you can use pbmplus's giftoppm and on to ppmtorast for a color Sun rasterfile, etc. It works well; I was just using it today to convert some video frames off of videodisc through the Mac II and into X on my Sparcstation. Giffer is Beerware: If you like it, you send the author a case of beer. It should be available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6), in info-mac/graphics, I believe. You'll also need Binhex 4.0, of course, and probably Stuffit. Kevin Long Baylor College of Medicine