[comp.windows.x] xbm-to-macPaint?

peebles@mips.com (Andrew Peebles) (10/13/90)

I have some old version of the Portable Bitmap software.  One of these programs
does an X bitmap to MacPaint conversion (or claims to anyway) but my latest
version of MacPaint (SuperPaint?) does not recognize the resulting file as
a paint file.  Anyone got more up-to-date pbm software, or some other X11
bitmap
to Mac converter?

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peter_colby@viewlogic.COM (10/17/90)

>I have some old version of the Portable Bitmap software.  One of these programs
>does an X bitmap to MacPaint conversion (or claims to anyway) but my latest
>version of MacPaint (SuperPaint?) does not recognize the resulting file as
>a paint file.  Anyone got more up-to-date pbm software, or some other X11
>bitmap to Mac converter?

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	I have been using the PBM version available on expo to
convert GIF file to MacPaint (giftoppm, ppmtopgm pgmtopbm pbmtomacp).
It works fine and MacPaint (latest version from Claris) recognizes
and displays the resultant files perfectly.
	Of course, I wrote my own little converter program to put a
proper MacBinary Header on the converted file and used binhex5 to
turn this into a real MacPaint file.
	You can also do this by hand on a Mac. Once the raw macpaint
file has been downloaded to the Mac, use a program like SetFile DA
or DiskTop or some such to set the owner to MPNT and the type to
PNTG so that Macpaint will recognize the file.
	If you use SuperPaint or some other MacPaint clone, you may
need to set some other type and owner but the idea is the same.
	Peter Colby

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