Re: Need help viewing GIFs on GS

[phandel@sempco.UUCP (Peter Handel)]

willer@main.morris.org (Dave Willer - Rockaway Boro Library) writes:

>Hi!!  I have been trying for a while now, to view GIFs.  Everyone tells me I
>need this program or that...  They told me to come here and ask for the
>LordHighGifter (or something like that).  Can someone get this for me, or tell
>me where I can?  Also what do I do once I get this program?  People have
>mentioned compressing and decompressing (which I need another program for...) 
>Can someone just tell me the steps I have to follow nice and easy?  I have an
>AppleiiGS, a 3.5 drive, and a 5.25 drive.  My telecom software is ProTerm.  I
>would really appreciate it if anyone could help me.  Thank you very much.
>
>DAVE
>
>
>                                 Dave Willer  
>                           willer@main.morris.org
>
>"Love reads like a bad biography: all the names are changed to protect the
>innocent.  Love is blind."  --Falsettos  (tent. scheduled at Pax Amicus
>Theatre, May-June 1994)

The best program for viewing .GIFs on the IIGS is Prizm v1.0, hands down.  The
'other' program is SuperConvert v3.0x...I believe v2.x was Public Domain, but
v3.0x is Commercial.

SuperConvert v3.0x:
Pluses: Wide range of convertable picture types; saves .GIFs & Icons & Finder  
       backdrops.
Minuses:SLOW! Converts to Maximal 256 colors (about 6 hours!), no pictures     
   bigger than 400x300 or something small like that...

Prizm v1.0
Pluses: FAST! Converts .GIFs, Amiga IFFs, Raw Files, and some other types to   
       Greyscale (very fast), 16 colors, 256 colors, and 3200 colors!  Size    
    of picture limited by availabe RAM, True Color viewing (only 16 pixels     
   wide, though 32 are possible by switching).
Minuses:Cannot save as .GIFs, crashes when quitting w/The Manger v1.0.

Another program available is SHRView v3.5 (v3.6c is available).  This just
displays all pictures in the current directory, even .GIFs (but only in
GreyScale and the first 320 pixels wide).

Also, JPEGview v4.0 has been released/ported by Ralph Searl.  This can
uncompress a JPEG to a .GIF or Targa, and compress .GIFs into JPEGS.  A
drawback/plus is that it only operates from within a shell (such as ORCA/M or
GNO/ME!) and converts any JPEG to a blue-palette .GIF (greyscale's ok).  A LOT
BETTER THAN v4.0- Good job, Ralph!


Hope this helps...BTW- There are also DL Viewers, FLI viewers, and soon
QuickTime viewers and ???? (censored...)

Feel free to e-mail me any questions.

Oh, there's also a program for the IIe called IIGIF which converts to High-res
B/W & Color and Double High-Res B/W & Color, which is Freeware/PD?

Call Big Red Computer Club (what was the tel#?) and get Prizm...only $39 or so.

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