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- A number of people have been asking about gif translators.
- Details about shareware programs that do this are listed below.
- For those with more expensive tastes, Photoshop and Corel Draw do
- a pretty good job on conversion as do most of the popular graphics
- packages out today.
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- Happy Clipping.
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- Eron
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- The Unofficial List of Where to Find Clip Art
- AND
- Frequently Asked Question
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- Please send addition to eron@cs.umd.edu.
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- World Wide Web
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- http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/eron
- The author of this document's homepage. Some worthwhile links including
- ones to the Smithsonian and an archive of alt.binaries.clipart
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- http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/clipart.html
- Sanda Loosemore has done an excellent job of bringing together plenty of
- clipart links. This is a great page, check it out.
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- Gopher
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- Gopher cs4sun.cs.ttu.edu - Art & Images Directory (Lots of Agricultural
- Clips)
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- FTP
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- pasture.ecn.purdue.edu /pub/almanac/clipart
- Contains clips from the gopher site above.
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- ccu1.auckland.ac.nz /architec/Textures
- Various architecture related clip art.
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- Sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/medicine/mac-medical/art
- Clip art and human body anatomy.
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- sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/grf directory.
- Many Mac pict/tiff clip art
- collections including: sunshine-sampler-clipart.hqx,
- leonards-clipart-a-n-tiff.hqx, graphics-sampler-clipart,
- beer clip art, some Eshers and more...
- (These are binhexed and compressed files)
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- wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/systems/msdos/msdos/deskpub
- artmart1.zip (there are 4), clipeze1.zip, clipit1.zip,
- paztiff1.zip(5 of these)...In pcc (same as pcx) & tiff
- formats.
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- ftp.fct.unl.pt /pub/eps
- This site in Portugual is noted to have 5meg of EPS
- clipart...somewhere....
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- photo1.si.edu /images
- This site belongs to the Smithsonian Institution.
- Although it doesn't contain clip are per se, it
- does contain lots of interesting and useful gif files
- for interesting publications.
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- wuarchive.wustl.edu /archive/multimedia/images/gif
- Plenty of gif files to suit your fancy.
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- Questions:
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- 1) How do I make use of a clip posted to alt-binaries.clip-art?
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- Most of the art posted to alt.binaries.clip-art is UUENCODED. Before you
- can make use of a uuencoded post, you must first save it to a file,
- strip off the headers (all the the lines up to the one that starts with
- BEGIN) using an editor and save the file. Hopefully your system will
- already have the UUDECODE utility installed. Type "uudecode <filename>"
- to convert the file back to its original binary format. Now you may
- transfer it back to your local system using your favorite protocol.
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- 2) How do I convert .gif files to another format?
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- There are many programs available for the Macintosh, MSDOS and other
- platforms, both commecial and shareware. Look in the graphics directory
- of your favorite FTP site for such a program.
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- For the Macintosh, my favorite is called Graphics Converter.
- It is available for ftp on inform.umd.edu in the
- /software/Macintosh/Utilities directory as graphic-converter-177us.cpt,
- it is a very nice peice of software.
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- For the IBM, Image Alchemy is nice.
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- 3) Is there more information about desktop publishing available on the
- Net?
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- YES! Try out the links on Geoffrey Peter's home page:
- http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/gwp. This doc is chock full of great
- links regarding desktop publishing and clip art. Geof has done a terrific
- job with this Web page.
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