Newsgroup: it.comp.grafica.photoshop
Titolo: Conversion MAC PC

Hi,
I'd like to convert about 300 images I've got from a mac owner. I'm using
Photoshop 5.5 for PC. Does anyone know if and how I can convert these
mac-files to pc format?
Joshua

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 mac-files to pc format?
Long Answer:
It would depend on what format the files were originally saved as. Most
common formats are completely cross-platfors, including TIFF, JPEG, PSD,
GIF, and PNG. You need to make sure the images ware saved with the
proper format suffix, like "image01.tif". While this is unavoidable on a
PC, it is only recenly bevcoming common on a mac. That's becuase, while
a PC can only tell the format of a file by its three character
extension, the format of Mac files is identified by an invisible tag of
four characters that have absolutely no connection to the filename. This
filetype tag is completely unrecognized ouside of a macintosh
environment, so if I were to e-mail you a TIFF file calles "Grand
Canyon", you would indeed recieve the file. It would be called "Grand
Canyon", and it would be a TIFF file, but until you added ".TIF" to the
filename, your computer would never know it was a TIFF file. In fact,
the same would go be true if you were using a Macintosh, since the
dozens of computers between yours and mine aren't Macs, the filetype
would not survive the translation.
Short Answer:
Yes, and Photoshop's Batch.. command (File -> Automante -> Batch...) can
open a folder of various files, perform any recordable actions on them,
then save them to a different folder in any other supported format.
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Scott Falkner
(604) 708-1900
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 a PC can only tell the format of a file by its three character
Not quite. The extension is there for user convenience only (and programmer
convenience as well).
Many programs will try to determine filetype if the extension is not
recognised, either by a brute force approach (just try it and see what
happens, when I get no error I hit the jackpot) or by analysing the file for
certain headers typical for a known fileformat.
I think Macs probably can do the same, but it all depends on the individual
software package if (and how well) such functions are implemented.

Yeah, throw out the pc and buy a mac. Then "convert."
I still have my PowerMac 7500 from 1995 running ....as it has since '95
with NEVER a hardware problem. My brother is on his fourth(!) pc!
Uhhhhhhh, you want to show me how mac's are more expensive???
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 Uhhhhhhh, you want to show me how mac's are more expensive???
No, since you'll probably reject my anecdotal evidence in favor of your
own.
But, frankly, I have not seen a machine that *never* had a hardware
problem that wasn't simultaneously lucky and never upgraded- and never
used much.
And if there is such a machine, it's not any Mac I've owned or had the
responsibility of maintaining.

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Yes, but in the psd case how tou can import mac font into pc?
Bye, Luke

 Bye, Luke
Most Mac fonts are avaliable for the PC, for a price.
You could open the font in Fontographer for Mac and save it as a PC
PostScript or TrueType fpnt, but that's not necessary.
Text in Photoshop is rasterized after it is set. You only need the font
installed if you make changes to the text.
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 installed if you make changes to the text.
Untrue in v.6, unless the artist has deliberately rasterized the text
before sending it.

 before sending it.
Eric,
The raster layer is still there, you just can't output it in vector 
format if you don't have the font installed.
Just tried it and although PS complained about the font not being there 
and warned about not being able to output vector, it opened and 
displayed just fine.
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-Steve

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Well, cool. I'd rather be wrong about a missing feature like this.