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From eron@cs.umd.edu Sat Nov 12 17:35:46 1994
From: eron@cs.umd.edu (Eron Cohen)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.clip-art
Subject: Gif Xlators and FAQ
Date: 9 Nov 1994 09:42:49 -0500
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tove.cs.umd.edu
A number of people have been asking about gif translators.
Details about shareware programs that do this are listed below.
For those with more expensive tastes, Photoshop and Corel Draw do
a pretty good job on conversion as do most of the popular graphics
packages out today.
Happy Clipping.
Eron
The Unofficial List of Where to Find Clip Art
AND
Frequently Asked Question
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Please send addition to eron@cs.umd.edu.
World Wide Web
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/eron
The author of this document's homepage. Some worthwhile links including
ones to the Smithsonian and an archive of alt.binaries.clipart
http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/clipart.html
Sanda Loosemore has done an excellent job of bringing together plenty of
clipart links. This is a great page, check it out.
Gopher
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Gopher cs4sun.cs.ttu.edu - Art & Images Directory (Lots of Agricultural
Clips)
FTP
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pasture.ecn.purdue.edu /pub/almanac/clipart
Contains clips from the gopher site above.
ccu1.auckland.ac.nz /architec/Textures
Various architecture related clip art.
Sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/medicine/mac-medical/art
Clip art and human body anatomy.
sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/grf directory.
Many Mac pict/tiff clip art
collections including: sunshine-sampler-clipart.hqx,
leonards-clipart-a-n-tiff.hqx, graphics-sampler-clipart,
beer clip art, some Eshers and more...
(These are binhexed and compressed files)
wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors/systems/msdos/msdos/deskpub
artmart1.zip (there are 4), clipeze1.zip, clipit1.zip,
paztiff1.zip(5 of these)...In pcc (same as pcx) & tiff
formats.
ftp.fct.unl.pt /pub/eps
This site in Portugual is noted to have 5meg of EPS
clipart...somewhere....
photo1.si.edu /images
This site belongs to the Smithsonian Institution.
Although it doesn't contain clip are per se, it
does contain lots of interesting and useful gif files
for interesting publications.
wuarchive.wustl.edu /archive/multimedia/images/gif
Plenty of gif files to suit your fancy.
Questions:
1) How do I make use of a clip posted to alt-binaries.clip-art?
Most of the art posted to alt.binaries.clip-art is UUENCODED. Before you
can make use of a uuencoded post, you must first save it to a file,
strip off the headers (all the the lines up to the one that starts with
BEGIN) using an editor and save the file. Hopefully your system will
already have the UUDECODE utility installed. Type "uudecode <filename>"
to convert the file back to its original binary format. Now you may
transfer it back to your local system using your favorite protocol.
2) How do I convert .gif files to another format?
There are many programs available for the Macintosh, MSDOS and other
platforms, both commecial and shareware. Look in the graphics directory
of your favorite FTP site for such a program.
For the Macintosh, my favorite is called Graphics Converter.
It is available for ftp on inform.umd.edu in the
/software/Macintosh/Utilities directory as graphic-converter-177us.cpt,
it is a very nice peice of software.
For the IBM, Image Alchemy is nice.
3) Is there more information about desktop publishing available on the
Net?
YES! Try out the links on Geoffrey Peter's home page:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/gwp. This doc is chock full of great
links regarding desktop publishing and clip art. Geof has done a terrific
job with this Web page.