#PCX Files
2 messages in this thread
G'Day George
Problems with PCX files is not something I have come across because I always
convert my bitmap images to IFF-ILBM before I do any work in ProPage. This is
just one part of the preparation I do before loading ProPage to start a
document. I would like to point that the program I use to do my conversion is
one called ImageStudio by Andy and Graham Dean. (not to be confusion with
Studio 2 Professional, the printing ehancment package.)
ImageStudio has a batch convert script which I also use. I have a Panasonic PD
system with CD drive and simply use ImageStudio to convert any PCX images I
might have on CD into IFF-ILBMs on my hard drive. Because it uses a disk cache
method, ah la virtual memory if you like, I can convert images that ADPro won't
touch with a barge pole on my lowly 7 megabyte system. In fact Image Studio is
so good, that when CU Amiga (UK Amiga magazine) suggested it should go
commercial, the authors and I got together and the upshot of this is that I
now sell the program with a manual for only fifteen pounds (30 us dollars
including postage).
The latest version is 2.3 which has cybervision support and a freely
distributable version is on Aminet. The FD version is restricted to loading
images no bigger than 250 by 250 pixels. Anyone wanting to know more, email me.
Larry Hickmott
Em Magazine
larry@em.powernet.co.uk
Larry;
I have managed to get most of the PCX files converted lately. Wolf Faust & Mike
Loader offered a lot of help and assistance. One of the strange things I have
found with the PCX files is how tempermental they seem to be (or is it the
Amiga conversion progS) Sometimes PPage will convert it sometimes not. A file
that PP rejects will sometimes convert using GFxConv and sometimes this prog
won't do it. I then try PACK and this one seems to work. But sometimes even
this one won't convert anything.
Image Studio sounds like it might be a good idea. YOu say that there is a demo
version on the Aminet. How do I go about finding the Aminet? (I'm not dazed and
confused for nothing) Can you put it on CIS?
George Morrison
Dazed and Confused on the A500 🙁