Windows (.BMP) XTND Translator
Copyright © 1992, MarketSoft Canada
By R. Mark Fleming
521 Albert Street
Kingston, Ont.
Canada, K7K 4M5
<flemingm@qucdn.QueensU.CA>

This tranlator and convertion application are shareware $15.00, see on-line help in the application for more information.  The XTND translator was created from the skeleton of Claris XTND sample code for a MacPaint XTND translator.  The enclosed application requires “Claris XTND System” module to use any XTND translators (Sorry, I have not licenced it).

XTND Translator work with applications that support XTND technology to allow them to import “new file formats”, by only adding a translator to a folder in your system.  This translator needs to be placed in a folder called “Claris Translators” which is inside the folder “Claris” in the System Folder.  Once installed any program that uses Claris’s XTND technology to import graphics (ex. File Maker Pro, MacDraw Pro, MacWrite II, Claris Works, and WordPerfect v2.x ) will be able import B&W BitMaps, 16 Color BitMaps and 256 Color BitMaps saved by PC PaintBrush application in Windows.  These bitmaps can be copied to the Macintosh using Apple File Exchange, and unchecking all the translators in the MS-DOS to Mac menu.

Sample of import file dialog box from MacWrite II with only “StartUp Screens” XTND translator selected.
The BitMapsToEPS application was designed to convert B&W bitmaps to B&W EPS bitmaps.  Currently any graphic file it reads will be converted to B&W bitmap.  It has options to Invert selected area, save the selected area as a PICT or as a EPS files.  If Quick Time is installed it also has an option to play Quick Time movies.