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In article <3atrm9$k8a@news.u.washington.edu>, merritt@u.washington.edu (Ethan A Merritt) writes...
>	For what it's worth the photoshop here uses a LaserGraphics
>slide maker, but I don't know what it cost.  It's a fairly old machine.
>They drive it on a Mac using Adobe Photoshop.
>	

We have one of these too.  It gets a lot of use, although more for making 
slides for talks than for working with pictures off the SGI.  When people 
do need pictures of proteins the order is:

  1.  Put it up on the SGI screen as large as possible.
  2.  Use snap to make an RGB file
  3.  Use topict on the SGI to convert it to pict.  (topict can be had
      from ftp.sgi.com as an executable).
  4.  Use Fetch on the mac to pull the pict over via FTP (binary).  Fetch
      has been set to map files with .pict extensions to a PICT filetype
      on the map.  That way all Mac graphics programs can get to it.
  5.  Use the LaserGraphics software to put it onto film.

Additionally, we have FreedomOfPress which is a Postscript interpreter. It
can be used with Molscript output, for instance, to write straight onto the
film.  

It all works quite well.  The main problem is that the 24 bit PICT files
are huge and the disk on the Mac is small.  Additionally, the film recorder
has a 3000 x 2000 pixel resolution (or something on that order), but the
biggest snapshot can only be screen size, say 1200 x 1200 max,
realistically, about 800 x 800.  Ie, when using the PICT method one can't
use the full resolution of the slidemaker. 

You might try calling LaserGraphics (somewhere in San Diego, CA) and asking 
them if they have a way to hook one of their machines up to an SGI directly.

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog@seqvax.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech