Batch converting IFF to GIF

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2 total messages Started by Ian Staples Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:00

#1383

Author: Ian Staples
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:00

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G'day world,

I have a bunch of IFF format graphics files (I think that's
an Amiga format) which I want to convert to something more
standard on PCs.  I would prefer conversion direct to GIF 
format, but JPEG would do at a pinch I guess.

I noted the following "instructions" at one site which
seem to be using a couple of Unix utilities to do, via 
redirection and piping, the sort of job I want to do:

     #!/bin/sh
     ilbmtoppm <$1 |ppmtogif >$1.gif

Questions is, does anyone know of a similar conversion
facility that will run under MSDOS and/or Windows 95?
Preferably free, and available by ftp.

(There's no need to use the "primitives" approach though.
I'd be quite happy with something that could do the job
by specifying wildcard filenames directly to the application
itself. ;-)

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au

Re: Batch converting IFF to GIF

#1384

Author: Rod Speed
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:00

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Ian Staples <ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid> wrote in
message news:8pvb08$cnp$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au...

> G'day world,

Cane toads arent allowed to posture like that. Golf clubs will be used.

> I have a bunch of IFF format graphics files (I think that's
> an Amiga format) which I want to convert to something
> more standard on PCs.  I would prefer conversion direct
> to GIF format, but JPEG would do at a pinch I guess.

> I noted the following "instructions" at one site which
> seem to be using a couple of Unix utilities to do, via
> redirection and piping, the sort of job I want to do:

>      #!/bin/sh
>      ilbmtoppm <$1 |ppmtogif >$1.gif

> Questions is, does anyone know of a similar conversion
> facility that will run under MSDOS and/or Windows 95?

Wota dinosaur.

> Preferably free, and available by ftp.

What's wrong with a decent graphics package that will allow
bulk conversions with a decent modern user interface ?

Irfan View and ACDSee will do that from memory.

> (There's no need to use the "primitives" approach though.
> I'd be quite happy with something that could do the job by
> specifying wildcard filenames directly to the application itself. ;-)

Wota dinosaur. Any decent system allows you to highlight the
ones you want to convert and just convert the highlighted files.

> Thanks for your time.

The bill is in the mail.

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