Re: Convert Apple Hi-Res (HGR) to Mac-usable?

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Cyrus Roton (croton@ridgecrest.ca.us) wrote:
: I tried IIgif. It converts from mac to AppleII, but not the reverse.

: I found Imagery. It converts from IIgs to Mac, but does not appear to 
: handle IIe hi-res nor dhr pictures.

: surely, there must be some way to convert IIe pic's to Mac (sure, I have 
: a scanner, but that is not the solution I prefer)???

: Cy Roton

What you want is a Mac program called DeBabelizer.  This thing converts 
any (and I mean ANY) graphics format to any other graphics format.  It 
does support many Apple II formats (although it can't figure out what type 
of data is in each file, you have to tell it "This is an HGR file, this 
is a Paintworks SHR file, etc.).

The full version of DeBabelizer is a little steep; however, there's also 
a package called DeBabelizer Lite which is less expensive.  I'm not sure 
if it includes the Apple II translations, however.

The really cool thing about DeBabelizer is its automation.  You can 
set it up so that you drop (say) a bunch of .GIFs on it, and it resizes 
them horizontally by 50% and gives them all a common palette and saves 
them to a series of sequentially numbered PICT files.  Or whatever else 
you want.  Maybe overkill for your purpose, but definitely way cool.

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