Help

[AmigaFreak]

Okay if there are any Macintosh users I need your help. I want to take a picture of AmigaOS running ontop of my mackky desktop, I tried Control/Shift/3 and took a desktop screenshot but I couldent open it up in Windows on the school computer, how can I view it so I can upload it to A.org?

[Karlos]

What picture format does it use? PICT or something?

If you have photoshop or whatever on your mac, paste the screenshot in there and export it as jpeg or something.

[AmigaFreak]

It says, "Simpletext Picture format" any ideas on what to do?

[Karlos]

Simpletext, eh? I vaguely remember that, sort of a wordpad like tool.

Well, I think your best bet is to load the image into a package on the mac - anything that can export it again in a more accessible format such as jpeg, png. Even PICT, as used pretty much only under MacOS can be imported by many PC applications. So it may be you are forced to convert the simpletext image format to PICT (assuming you don't have any other mac applications handy), put it on a PC floppy and load it into photoshop or paintshop and export it again as jpeg or whatever.

Hopefully, you can just export it as jpeg straight from a suitable mac application.

For the purposes of submitting to amiga.org, I'm sure jpeg or gif are the best choices. Not sure if png or other formats are allowed or not.

[AmigaFreak]

I got it to work, thanks for the help! All it was, was a PIC file. and all I did was convert it to GIF and then submitted to A.org! :-)

[Karlos]

Nay problem :-)

If the original image was high / true colour (it should at least be as deep as your desktop was) I would advise you to export jpeg rather than gif, since the latter is restricted to 8-bit (256 colour) modes only.