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A friend scanned in some photos on a Mac into TIFF format, then used
Photoshop to convert the TIFFs to GIFs.  When he FTP'd (gee aren't
these acronyms fun?) the GIFs to an archive site, they ended up as
filename.GIF.bin files, meaning (I think) MacBinary II format.  I
tried downloading one of these to a PC and using a GIF viewer, and
it said the GIF format was invalid.

Basically what we want to do is convert TIFFs to GIFs and JPEG-JFIFs.
Please help.

I have a second question as well.  When I download some GIFs to my PC,
they end up not being able to be read in correctly (using Fractint or
a regular GIF viewer), resulting in a very skinny squashed version of
the image at the top, a slightly less squashed version of it just below
that, a slightly less squashed version below that, and so on for a total
of about 5 squashed versions of the picture.  The only way I have found
to correct this is to use the JPEG group's software to convert the GIF
to a JPEG and then convert the JPEG back to a GIF, resulting in some
quality reduction and a larger file, but at least it works.  What causes
this problem and how can I fix it?

The files I am talking about, if you want to try it out on your own, are:
(for the TIFF->GIF problem: at soda.berkeley.edu, /pub/incoming/sfraves/
goofybre.GIF.bin)  and  (for the multiple squashed images: at cs.uwp.edu,
/pub/music/pictures/alt.rave/braindnc.gif  as well as several others there)

Mike
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                                                            Mike Brown
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