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In article <1992Oct31.161251.2049@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>  
aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:
> In article <1992Oct29.222829.2626@bacchus.com> bacchus!eric (Eric Bloom)  
> writes:
> 
> > With Image Agent users can simply drag and drop non-native image files  
> directly  
> > into graphic applications, such as PasteUp, Diagram, Concurrence, and  
> have the  
> > images instantly appear. Image Agent transparently performs the image  
> > conversion as if it were part of the actual application in use. 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of how this works? I can't figure out where the  
> software hooks in to make this possible. Is it a 3.0 thing? 
> 
> -Anthony

I have Image Agent.  This is one cool App, made possible by the addition
of "Image Filter Services" of NeXTSTEP 3.0.

In an App I am writing, I use the standard NXImage object for graphics.
With Image Agent, I can now open pretty much ANY type of graphics file, and
my App doesn't care that it is a foreign graphic format.  Whatever the graphic
format is, it's data (not the original file) is silently and transparently
converted to TIFF by Image Agent before being handed off to my App.  My App
doesn't know and doesn't care that this conversion took place.

In short, with Image Agent, any graphics file looks like a TIFF file to
your other applications.

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