Re: picture conversoin(gif things)

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

In <2or7tc$7lt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Auri Rahimzadeh) writes:


>: i would like to know how i can convert gif pictures that i download for
>: internet so i can view them on my apple IIGS.  i do have a gif converter 
>: but not one of those decoder thingys that gets rid of the header of things, 
>: but i do want to know where i can get one.

>You can use the commercially available Prism, which is awesome to do GIF 
>conversions (and many other conversions as well.)  SuperConvert is not
>very good at converting GIF pictures.  Public Domain/Shareware-wise, you
>have a lot of choices, such as:

>	GIF3200  <-- does an awesome job in 3200 COLORS, but slow and limited
   This does an OK job (IMHO), but on most of the 256 color GIFs I've used on
   it, it's not that great.

>	GIFView 1.2  <-- very fast, but greyscale (does a great job though)
   This does color, as well.

>	JPEG Viewer <-- (this lets you view .JPG / JPEG compressed pictures)
   This one's only greyscale, I believe.

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