#Graphics not seen
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To anyone transfering graphic files between the Amiga and the Macintosh:
I have a Mac Performa 6115CD on one end of the room, and an Amiga 4000
on the other. Recently, I purchased the Texture Gallery CDRom set,
which I read on the Macintosh, and transfer files from via disk to
the Amiga side using CrossMac.
The files I transfer from the CD to the Amiga — be it IFF, JPEG,
PICT, TIFF, or TARGA — can all be successfully read and viewed on
my Amiga, using AdPro to read in the various formats. What I cannot
seem to do, and no one in Apple tech support knows why, is read and
view the PICT or TIFF graphics from the CD on any of the Mac programs
capable of displaying graphics (Dabbler, ClarisWorks, etc;) For some
odd reason, the PICTs and TIFFs are read as Text files, not graphic
files.
Now, I've taken these pictures into Ad Pro, resaved them as PICT or
TIFF, and ported them back to the Mac, but they will not show up as
graphics. I got a call back from Fred Fish who wasn't sure why they
weren't readable on the Mac. And, as I said, Apple tech was in the
dark, too.
So, why the one-way street with these files? Something in the header
of the AdPro-created PICT files that doesn't conform to what the Mac
expects to find?
because you will need to convert them to a mac data fork file for the
images.ADOBE photoshop 2.5 + can read pc versions of tiff/pict,etc of
files.SO does fractal painter,and macromedia director.
Actually, it doesn't have anything to do with the data or resource forks, it
has to do with the "type" and "creator" of the file on the Mac side. Along
with the two forks, there is a bit of info that stores which program supposedly
created the data, and which data format is stored there. These bits of info
are what cause the proper icon to show up for that file. (I bet your image
files show up with the generic document icon, not the nice PhotoShop icon, for
example.)
So go download ResEdit for your Mac. You'll only use its extended "get info"
menu item. It will show you the type and creator of any existing file on your
hard disk, and it will let you change the type and creator on any file to that
applications will recognize these files properly. Once you've changed the type
and creator the hard way, go get "FixCreator Pro", a utility that makes it easy
to reset them with drag-and-drop.
John-O!!! Brass ring time! Now, that's what I pays my hard earned moola to
Compuserve for! Thanks for the solution.
Sean Hannon
Ad Rats – Stamford, CT