ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au (Nick Guoth) (04/15/91)
Hi, A number of people have request a review of the program "The Curator" which I mentioned in my summary last week. The following is a 'back- cover review' of the product. I wish to say here that I still have not used the product and have no connection with Solutions incorporated (but if they wish to send me some money for advertising their product, go for it!). The Curator: An Art Management and File Conversion Program The Curator lets you search your hard disk for graphic files of all types. You can search by full or partial file names, or by user-defined keywords. The Curator will display each file in a minature, so that you can tell if it is the right one without having to open it. You can even view minatures of an entire folder at once. The Curator handles all the common graphic file types including MacPaint, TIFF, PICT, Encapsulated PostScript (IBM and Mac) and Glue. It allows you to open them, display them on the screen, and cut and paste them into any program that will accept them. For example you can open a graphic created by Adobe Illustrator and paste it into PageMaker, MacDraw or even MacWrite. The Curator converts among many graphic file types. For example, it can convert a PICT document to a TIFF for touchup or adding special effects in art programs. The Curator canUt add PostScript or objectness to a graphic that does not already have it. However, it can translate almost any standard format graphic into any other. /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ nick guoth ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au Research School of Chemistry Computing Unit Australian National University Canberra, AUSTRALIA "Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce" - Snoopy \-----------------------------------------------------------------/