Graphics on a IIgs...

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Okay, here's my problem.  Hopefully someone here knows of a good solution...

I have bunches and bunches of neat pictures.  These pictures are presently
on a Windows '98 machine.  I want to use these pictures on my IIgs.

The pictures are presently obscenely-sized JPEG files.  This is not a
problem, as I can scale them down to the size I need for the IIgs.  The
pictures are presently 24-bit color.  This is not a problem either, as I
can scale the colors to the 4-bit version I need for the IIgs.

So now I have a collection of 320x200 16-color graphics available on the
Windows machine.  Question is, what format should they be in?

Now, I can leave them as JPEG files, display each one on the GS (each one
will require several minutes to decompress as my accelerator doesn't work)
and I can save them as SHR graphics.

I can convert them to GIF files, but the one GIF viewer I have is not very
good, and doesn't convert to SHR.

I can save them as BMP files, uncompressed, but I have no way of bringing
those up on my SHR screen.

It seems that the most reasonable thing to do is to make the Windows
machine (1,000 MHz processor) do the heavy lifting to convert the images to
something the IIgs (3 MHz processor) can handle.  So the most obvious tool
to use would be a converter that can convert .BMP-->.SHR on the Windows
machine.  Anybody know of such a critter?

Or, alternatively, a .BMP->.SHR converter on the IIgs (Convert 3200,
perhaps?).  But my preference would be to get the files into a
"GS-friendly" format early on...

Anybody got any ideas?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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