jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) (07/24/90)
We are trying to use Paul Haeberli's great set of programs to convert image files to files which we can read and edit on our Macintoshes. I've got togiff working, and successfully got gif files on the Mac,unfortunately the Giffer program on the mac doesn't print, and you can't edit the files. I've tried totiff, and it may work, but I found out that my Mac program (Aldus Freehand) only read black and white tiff files, and the one I've created has color information. The program that seems most useful is "tomac" which is supposed to create a MacPaint file. Problem is I'm not sure how to use it. MacPaint files are not text files, and have to have there "Creator" and "Type" fields set properly. When I try to down load the file created by tomac, and set its "Creator", it causes "ResEdit" to crash. Sometimes I can get these set properly, and some of the time the file can then be opened by macpaint. What would be nice would be to have the file created in macbinary format, so that the resource and data forks were on the Iris, and could be downloaded as a true MacPaint file to the Macintosh. Does anyone know how to do this? Perhaps I'm not using "tomac" properly. Jim
doelz@urz.unibas.ch (07/24/90)
In article <23822@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) writes: > > I've tried totiff, and it may work, but I > found out that my Mac program (Aldus Freehand) only read > black and white tiff files, and the one I've created has color > information. Issue a % tobw first, in order to create a bw file. This can be readily totiff'ed and it works o.k. on the mac (at least in my Pagemaker). > supposed to create a MacPaint file. Problem is I'm not sure how to > use it. MacPaint files are not text files, and have to have there > "Creator" and "Type" fields set properly. When I try to down load > the file created by tomac, and set its "Creator", it causes "ResEdit" > to crash. Sometimes I can get these set properly, and some of the time I used a PD tool to set the (binary ftp'ed) file creator and it worked. > the file can then be opened by macpaint. My problem is that the MacPaint format supported is (at least on my mac) pure black and white, which is not much useful. Anyone else succeeded in getting things right ? - Reinhard