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lauren@cv.vortex.com (Lauren Weinstein) writes:

>Greetings.  On various net archives can be found collections
>of clip art under various "amiga" graphics directories.  The extracted
>files usually have a ".img" extension.  However, I have so far
>been unable to find a utility to convert these to ".pcx" format 
>(or any standard pbm format).  The pbm utilities include two
>different programs involving different sorts of "img" files--but
>neither of them appears to be the amiga type (one utility simply
>refuses to proceed, the other core dumps).  Xv does not recognize
>".img" as a valid image type at all.

>Can anyone shed some light on this format, and the means to convert
>it to more "universal" formats?  Thanks.

>--Lauren--

Hi Lauren

If you're getting the clip-art from an Amiga base you should
expect the format to be IFF/ILBM. This format is supported by
the Public Domain package FBM from the Amiga Fish library. You'll
get the source code as well, so you can compile it for whatever
machine you're on - provided you have a K&R C-compiler. There
are commercial utilities available to do the conversion job as
well. On the Mac the PhotoShop program will import this format
directly. If you know somebody who uses the program DeluxePaint
for the IBM PC (WOW! I said it ..), there is a conversion program
bundled with it called convert.exe. This program will convert
between PCX and IFF/ILBM - both ways.

Good luck!

Kurt Marcussen