Image transfer to Macs

[Robert B. Funchess]

If you want a color image transferred to your Mac, and it has less than 256
colors, you can turn it into a GIF file and transport it over.  No, you can't
print from GIFfer, but you can save the file in PICT format, open it with
any of a number of drawing programs and print it THAT way.  This is a horrible
kludge, but it works most of the time for us... actually, we use Mathematica
to print the images on our color printer because a) Mathematica seems to do a
reasonable job, unlike a lot of other programs we've tried and b) our site
license for Mathematica requires anyone who purchases a Mac on campus to buy
the program and we might as well use it...
If your image has MORE than 256 colors, Paul Haeberli of SGI wrote a program
that will make a GIF file out of it anyway, but it will be dithered.  Given
our color printer (not a sublimation job, just wax-transfer) the dithering is
not particularly noticeable in the final output (the printer's going to dither
it anyway).
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Bob Funchess					bobf at blumiris.chem.umr.edu
Chemistry Dept.					University of Missouri - Rolla