[comp.sys.mac.apps] TIFF to GIF conversion : which program

emwessel@cs.ruu.nl (Eric van Wessel) (12/07/90)

Hello there.

A simple (?) question :
Which commercial program can convert .TIFF to .GIF ?

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Thanks, Eric  (emwessel@praxis.cs.ruu.nl)

knoll@well.sf.ca.us (John Knoll) (12/10/90)

Gifconverter (shareware) can do this operation.
Adobe Photoshop (comercial) will perform the same conversion, and a bunch of
other stuff.  Photoshop's TIFF reader is more complete than Gifconverter, it
handles more of the encoding schemes, Intel byte ordering, etc, and so will
be able to perform this conversion on more files.

Disclaimer:  I am the co-author of Photoshop.

friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu (12/10/90)

There is a freeware program called Image.  It can be found at
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in one of the folders (probably apps).  You can open
TIFF files with it and then save as a PICT.  From there you should be able to
open the PICT files with GIF 1.08.
Good Luck
Rich
Friedman@mbcl.rutgers.edu