Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!MITRE.ARPA!mcgurrin From: mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: gif pictures Message-ID: <8805061839.AA15111@mitre.arpa> Date: 6 May 88 18:39:31 GMT References: <8805052332.aa11313@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Lines: 8 I don't know how to let a GS read a Mac disk, but if you have access to a Mac, the Apple File Exchange utility will read Mac files and write to a ProDOS disk. I have used this to transfer MacPaint files over, then use SHRConvert to read, display, and convert to GS format. Good results, but interesting. Since the vertical resolution is lower on the GS, but more colors (it's hard to have fewer colors than black and white), SHRConvert apparently averages the values of Mac pixels, since the resulting 640 mode picture on the GS had black, white, and 2 shades of grey.