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Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? [message #2309 is a reply to message #2279]

Thu, 09 June 1994 10:29

greg
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Registered: May 1991

Junior Member

Ah.. There is a Mac program called 'Creator Type Change' (ctc.1.6 is the latest
version) that one can put on the desktop and just drag a bunch of files to. When
the group of files is dropped into the icon, a window pops up that lets one change
the file type and creator code.

Greg.

In article <Geoff.Sobering-090694104116@gybe.ncrr.nih.gov>, Geoff.Sobering@nih.gov (Geoff Sobering) writes:
|> In article <Cr3Ant.IJL@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, nicholas@dsuap1 (Andy Nicholas)
|> wrote:
|>
|> > Does anyone know a simple way to convert files generated by the IDL
|> > WRITE_PICT command? I have been doing this in Photoshop but now I need
|> > to do this to 200+ files. Anyone know a batch mode way to do this?
|>
|> We use the Macintosh FTP client 'fetch' to do the job. We use 'fetch's
|> "Suffix Mapping" feature to set the Mac file-type to 'PICT' for every UNIX
|> file with the extension '.pict'. This allows Mac programs to recognize the
|> PICT files for what they are.
|>
|> One caveat, we have seen some problems with fancy color-tables. Some Mac
|> applications (PowerPoint) mis-read the IDL PICT file's color-tables. At
|> present, our "solution" for problem-files is to open and save the programs
|> with the "NIH Image" program (which can open multiple files at a time).
|>
|> --
|> Geoff Sobering
|> In Vivo NMR Research Center
|> National Institutes of Health

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Greg Ushomirskiy
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		Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? By: 8015 on Thu, 09 June 1994 07:29
		Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? By: gurman on Thu, 09 June 1994 19:12
		Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? By: greg on Thu, 09 June 1994 10:29
		Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? By: Geoff.Sobering on Thu, 09 June 1994 08:41
		Re: IDL WRITE_PICT --> Macintosh PICT??? By: greg on Thu, 09 June 1994 07:54

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