Re: Exporting large APF images?

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>    Is there any current Apple IIgs software that can export large
>Apple Perferred Format (APF) Super-Hi-Res images *without* clipping?
>As most of you know, Platinum Paint 2.0 can create APF images larger
>than 640/320x200, in fact even larger than 640/320x396, which was
>the limit of older software such as Deluxe Paint II. As well, if you
>own a Quickie scanner, it is quite common where scanned images will
>exceed two pages vertically (another source of large APF's).
>
>    As it happens, I have done scans where the saved APF image can 
>be around 320x500. The problem is when I go to export that image into
>a format such as GIF, BMP or TIFF, all software wants to clip it to
>one screen wide by two screen long. I've tried SuperConvert, The 
>Graphics Exchange, Convert 3200 and GIFfy-Save. GIFfy-Save at least
>_thinks_ it can export large APF's, but the resulting GIF it creates
>is either clipped or a blank screen. As for Convert 3200, it seems
>to insist on reducing the image to 320x200 before it can even be 
>exported. I would just simply like to move some images from the IIgs
>to a PC or Mac.


There was a Mac program that could convert SHR graphics.  I forgot the
name, but I believed it even reads multiple palette modes like 256 and
3200 colors provided the graphic was in APF format.  It was a shareware
program, I think.

The other method would be to load the graphic into AppleWorks GS or
another graphics/page layout program and "print to disk" with the
LaserWriter driver to generate a PostScript file.  The PS file could
then be used on a Mac or PC.  You will lose many colors if you go this
route, but size would be preserved.

-Scott G.