Abstracts of files as of Wed Jul 1 03:01:01 PDT 1992 Directory: info-mac/art/gif #### BINHEX cyber-gif.hqx **** Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 00:21 PDT From: rla20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Roger Allen) I am submitting my GIF-viewing program CyberGif into the sumex-aim archives. A description follows. If you like it, please remember to support shareware. Roger Allen #####CyberGif Description CyberGif is a Macintosh GIF viewer. "Why another one?" you may ask. Well, CyberGif has a lot of features that aren't available on the other GIF viewers that I have found. I tried the other gif viewers/editors and found the features that I wanted in a GIF viewer. These features include: -Fast Decode & Display--see the gifs as you decode them. -Small Program Size--only 54k! Save disk space for GIFs--not viewers! -Dithering--CyberGif allows black & white Macs (w/ColorQD) to see GIF files! Please note that CyberGif does this AUTOMATICALLY only if all monitors hooked up to the Mac are in two color mode. Multiple monitors of differing depths may confuse CyberGif. A future version will fix this. -Slide Show--just put the GIFs you want in a directory and watch the full screen show! Also note that the GIFs must be of type 'GIFf' to be seen in the slide show. -Growable/Scrollable windows--you can choose to stretch/shrink the window! -Fit Gif to Screen--and keeps the GIF proportions correct! -Full Screen Window--for those times when a window and menu bar are too distracting! -System Palette Option--see how the GIF would look as a background picture! -Information Window--look at the current GIF's colors and much more! -Flash--get rid of color residue that most GIF viewer leave in the background! #####NOTES: CyberGif has been developed and tested on a Macintosh IIcx running System 7.0 with both Virtual Memory and 32-bit mode on. I have personally tested CyberGif on the following Macs: SE/30, System 6; IIcx, System 6; IIcx, System 7; IIci, System 6; LC, System 6.0.8; IIsi, System 7; Classic II, System 7; PowerBook 140, System 7. On any machine without Color Quickdraw, CyberGif dies a quick and ugly death. This will be fixed in a future version. On multiple-monitor machines, automatic dithering will NOT work unless ALL screens are set to 1-bit mode. #####CyberGif Version History 1.1 - This version hopefully fixes the problems that some users had with Mac LCs and the HDT Lightshow init. It also includes a way to pause the slideshow. (June, 1992) 1.0 - The first official release of CyberGif. (May, 1992) #### BINHEX earth.hqx **** Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 16:09:03 EST From: Dr. G. Paul Savage Subject: [*] earth gif This is a GIF picture of our planet. It would make a nice startupscreen but since it's an odd size (670*660) I thought it would be better to post the original GIF rather than cut it down to size. That way you lucky souls with larger screens can use GifConverter to make a big stsrtupscreen or desktop. Enjoy Paul Savage *** Melbourne *** Australia *** paul@carbon.chem.csiro.au #### BINHEX gif-converter-229-to-2210.hqx **** An updater to convert Kevin Mitchell's GIFConverter 2.2.9 to version 2.2.10. #### BINHEX gif-converter-229.hqx **** This is GIFConverter 2.2.9. Display any GIF, TIFF, RIFF, MacPaint, Thunderscan, Startupscreen, RLE, or PICT file on any Macintosh just by downloading this file! Uses color QuickDraw on color Macintoshes. GIFConverter is SHAREWARE, $40 plus S&H. Since version 2.2.8, LZW decompression (GIF and TIFF) has been sped up, and crashes when open PICT or TIFF files with many colors have been removed. Version 2.2.9 has support for TIFF LZW-compressed and RGB files. It also has the capability to change the color palette that the images use, which means it can make startupscreen files that work right at startup time. GIFConverter can do scaling by percentage, higher resolution (144 or 288 dpi) pictures, and true halftones on 300 dpi QuickDraw printers such as the HP DeskWriter and non-Postscript laser printers. You can print on any Macintosh printer (halftones on LaserWriter, color on ImageWriter II or any color PostScript printer and the LaserWriter 6.0+ driver (when Apple gets it to work) or many other color printers), or save to any of these file formats plus EPSF! Every feature is fully implemented, so you can test GIFConverter with your complete system! Support for GIFConverter is available online through Compuserve, GEnie, America Online, and Internet Mail. This file is a self-extracting archive, and has been checked for viruses with Disinfectant 2.4. Send comments and bug reports to 74017.2573@compuserve.com. Kevin Mitchell GIFConverter Author #### TEXT gif-format.txt **** 15-Mar-89 19:43:20-GMT,32427;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from Forsythe.Stanford.EDU by sumex-aim.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.0) id AA14020; Wed, 15 Mar 89 11:43:20 PST Message-Id: <8903151943.AA14020@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Received: by Forsythe.Stanford.EDU; Wed, 15 Mar 89 11:44:20 PST Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 10:37:59 -0900 To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Reply-To: Sender: From: Reed Rector Subject: GIF specifications A few weeks ago, I asked for someone to send me the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) specifications. The replys were mixed.... half of the people had the specs, and the other half wanted a copy, so it seems that the Archive is a good place for it. I also recieved some 'C' source code to do the encoding and decoding, but it is not specifically for the Mac. If there is sufficient demand, #### BINHEX gif-movie-11.hqx **** Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 20:14:57 PST From: htsukada@msri.org (H. Tsukada) GifMovie1.1 by H. Tsukada (htsukada@msri.org) This is the latest version of GifMovie, a Gif viewing program. Put GifMovie and Gif files in a same folder. Select GifMovie and the pictures you want to watch and double click on them. #### BINHEX gif-typer-10.hqx **** Date: Thu, 15 Nov 1990 02:16:03 -0600 From: beckett@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Robert Beckett) Subject: GIFTyper1.0.hqx I am posting this for the author: GIF Typer is a small application that was designed to be a tool to prepare GIF files between GIF viewing applications like QuickGIF and Giffer and communication packages like Fetch and White Knight. When GIF files are brought into the Mac, they are often of a type unknown to GIF viewers. In the past, this forced a GIF frequenter to have to suffix all files with .gif. GIF Typer offers a neat fix for this problem. To use GIF Typer, simply drag and drop a file on top of GIF Typer's icon. GIF Typer will launch and convert the files to a GIF type and quit, all in the blink of an eye. Multiple files can be converted by selecting a group of files and dropping them on GIF Typer. GIF Typer requires System 7.x to work. Freeware. --Robert beckett@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu #### BINHEX gif-watcher-201.hqx **** Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 02:21:15 CST From: achapman@dcsuwf.dcsnod.uwf.edu (Allen Chapman 438-8854) Subject: gifwatcher-2.0.1.cpt.hqx This is the latest version of gifwatcher, a DA for viewing gif files as they are downloaded. I got this from AOL. This version adds several features not found in version 1.0. - allen #### BINHEX giffer-112.hqx **** Steve Blackstock Random Dot Software 40 Bartlett Ave. Lexington, MA 02173 Giffer version 1.12 (Sep 23, 1991) Giffer, an image display program for the Macintosh II, is Copyright 1987-91 by Stephen Blackstock, who reserves all rights to its distribution and sale. Giffer is Beerware. If you like it and use it, please send me a case of beer (or $20 so I can buy one). If you do send me something, I'll make you a registered user of Giffer, and that will entitle you to receive news about Giffer updates. (Please also tell me what version you have!) I plan to work on Giffer more, so this update news might be beneficial if you like the program. Giffer is an image display program for the Macintosh II family of computers. It works best in 256 color (8-bit) mode, but will work in 16 color (4-bit), 4 color (2-bit) and 2 color (1-bit) modes as well. Giffer also works in 24-bit mode, but 24-bit images will not be displayed in full color (they will be dithered to 256 colors). (GIF currently does not support 24 bits of color, so there would be no way to save a 24-bit images in GIF.) It is a memory-intensive program, so it's nice to have as much memory as you can get to run it. However, it will run with the standard 1 Meg. 1.12 (8/91) - Fixed bug which caused off-screen dialogs on IILC. Added support for Flex images. 1.11 (6/91) - Added color icons for System 7.0. Improved System 7.0 comaptibility. Fixed bug which caused crash on Mac LC. 1.10b1 (3/91) - Added limited support for TIFF. Allowed Giffer to read GIF 89a revision files (needs significant testing). Fixed the Open command so that it will allow any file to be selected when the option key is held down as the menu selection is made. #### BINHEX jobs.hqx **** Date: Sat, 2 May 92 03:38:42 -0400 From: king@acpub.duke.edu (King Rhoton) Subject: Jobs.hqx Here is a scan of one of Steve Jobs' prom photos. Nice hair. Gif format. #### BINHEX newton.hqx **** Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 15:44:43 PDT From: The Moderators Subject: [*] Gif of Newton PDA This is a GIF of Apple's upcoming PDA (personal digital assistant) named Newton. It's a shot of the case and pen. From Usenet. [Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/newton.hqx; 90K] #### BINHEX quick-gif.hqx **** Date: Sat, 21 Apr 90 19:08:04 PDT From: sierra@das.llnl.gov (Frankie Sierra) Subject: QuickGIF 1 0f 6 (QuickGIF Part 1 of 6) QuickGIF is a very Fast GIF viewer for color capable Macs (this includes the II family and the SE/30, but not the Plus or SE). It displays GIF, PICT, MacPaint and ReadMac images. Can save in GIF or PICT format, and can also copy images to the clipboard. User can transform images with spheric, conic, mirrors, and oil paint filters. Three high quality dithering filters are provided for transforming into black and white. Multiple files can be selected for opening at once. Also play digitized sound files. This program is Shareware, registered users will receive as a bonus the commercial version: QuickGIF Plus, which adds the ability to do Slideshows of graphics and digitized sounds. Requires System 6.0.2 or later, Color Quickdraw or 32-Bit Quickdraw, and lots of memory recommended, although the program will run in 1-meg machines. ----------- #### BINHEX stng-makeitso.hqx **** From Star Trek The Next Generation, a humorous GIF (640 by 440) based on the oft used command "Make it so." #### BINHEX time-traveller.hqx **** Subject: Timetraveller.GIF Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 23:31:42 EDT From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu Greetings, Attached is a spectacular 640x480x256 GIF image by David Palermo. It's a surrealistic rendering of a sort of "cosmic wristwatch" on a marble surface. It's very hard to describe, but it's visually stunning, and makes a superb desktop image. I downloaded it from America Online and re-upload it here with his permission. David's description follows: "This image is of a woman (my friend's wife) sitting inside a time piece looking out into space which is inside the time piece. Does that make sense? I guess you will have to see it to understand." Please note that the correct title is "Timetraveller". It may have been truncated somewhere along the way... David can be reached at (619) 944-9907 or at Space7 on America Online. --Mike