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- From: simard@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Donald Simard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
- Subject: Re: GEOS backgrounds
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.181000.20386@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:10:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.040910.23773@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1992Dec29.142717.4752@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1992Dec29.142717.4752@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> doug-taylor+@osu.edu writes:
- >
- >After you use piclab to scale and remap the gif file, you need to
- >convert it to either PCX or TIFF format. Graphics Workshop is an
- >excellent shareware product for doing this, and it's available for
- >anonymous ftp at any Simtel mirror site.
- >
- >Then enter GEOS and fire up GeoDraw. Use the Import function (from
- >the File menu) to import your PCX or TIFF file. Then make sure the
- >image is "selected" (ie, has the little select boxes on it) and use
- >the Edit menu to Cut or Copy it.
- >
- >When you've done that, fire up Preferences, select Background, and
- >click on the "get background from clipboard" button. The image you
- >cut or copied becomes your new background.
- >--
- > Doug Taylor | Nothing real can be threatened.
- > The Ohio State University | Nothing unreal exists.
- > doug-taylor+@osu.edu | - A Course in Miracles
-
- I did an archie on graphics workshop but only found references to
- GNU's graphics-0.17.tar.Z which if I am not mistaken is for UNIX
- workstations. Which Graphics Workshop were you refering to?
- don
-
- btw what do I resize the .gif files to?
-