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Mac Conversion for GCG Files

Jerry Learn learn at u.washington.edu
Sat Jun 24 13:02:28 EST 1995


In article <3shf2v$4sq at azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
v069t3q8 at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu wrote:

>Is there a Macintosh Utility to convert gcg graphics files
>such as pileup.figure into a MAC accessible PICT file so that
>it can be opened in a MAC graphics program, such as Canvas.
>
>Maninder Chopra
>SUNY at Buffalo

I got the following from the BIONET archive
(gopher://gopher.bio.net:70/77/.wais-sources/biosci):

>In article <3r1c2r$jpi at comet.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE>, "Luca Ida Giovanni TOLDO
>(Ph.D.)" <Luca.Toldo at embl-heidelberg.de> wrote:

>> Dear Collegues,
>> I am very interested in having a niceworking solution
>> for the problem:
>> 
>> HOW TO GET A GIF/TIFF/PICT/MAC DRAW/ADOBE FILE FROM A
>> FIGURE ?
>> 
> GCG has come up with a programme which allows you to convert a GCG Figure
> file into a Mac PICT file. You can find it together with some information
> at the GCG ftp site:
> ftp://alanine.gcg.com//pub/mac/GCGFigure.sea.hqx
>
> Regards,
> 
> Jan
>
> -- 
> Jan Eggermont 


I've tried it and it appears to work pretty well.  It allows you to zoom
in on or to select a portion of a GCG Figure

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