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
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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.