[comp.archives] [graphics...] Re: Converting: Mac-Graphic --> Sun-Rasterfile

buc@jessica.stanford.edu (Robert Richards) (03/22/91)

Archive-name: graphics/pixutils/imtools/1991-03-14
Archive: sds.sdsc.edu:[.sdscpub.sun4.graphics]imtools_tar.Z [132.249.20.22]
Original-posting-by: buc@jessica.stanford.edu (Robert Richards)
Original-subject: Re: Converting: Mac-Graphic --> Sun-Rasterfile
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)



>Anybody out there knows of a PD software for converting
>Macintosh graphic formats (PICT, MacPaint) to a format
>that I could use on my Sun workstation (Sun rasterfile).

The new "imconv" software should be able to help, it is or soon will
be available by anonymous ftp at,

	sds.sdsc.edu

Here are the formats that it handles.


Format     Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------
cgm        Computer Graphics Metafile
hdf        Hierarchical Data File
iff        Sun TAAC Image File Format
mpnt       Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
pic        PIXAR picture file
pict       Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
pix        Alias image file
ps         PostScript
ras        Sun Rasterfile
rgb        SGI RGB image file
rla        Wavefront raster image file
synu       Synu image file
tiff       Tagged image file
x          Stardent AVS X image file
xbm        X11 bitmap file
xwd        X Window System window dump image file


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