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There are several ways you might try and do the image transfer. If you have
a CellQuest PICT you want *exactly*, you can use a common image format such as
GIF or JPG among freeware/shareware/commercial applications like JPEGView (Mac)
and LView (Windows) by pasting into the Mac side - saving as GIF - binary
transfer to DOS - read GIF and print to Agfa device. Most Mac and Windows image
software available on the Internet lends itself to this kind of thing.
You might also try a Windows (assuming the DOS system has it) flow
application and print directly to the slidemaker device. The benefit here is
most applications print to the device driver's Device Context, thus making the most
of high resolution devices. A CellQuest QuickDrawPICT will still be at 72dpi
almost no matter what you do. You could also print on the Mac side to an EPS
(Encapsulated PostScript) file and try and bring it up in a PostScript friendly
application such as Adobe Photoshop on the Windows side for printing to the
slide maker. My experience scaling QuickDrawPICT suggests you're best off doing
any sizing BEFORE creating the bitmap, since bitmap stretching/shrinking usually
results in poor looking images.
There are other, even more gruesome ways, but maybe these suggestions
will help. As a last resort, you can use image conversion utilities like
PBMPlus to create what the DOS side needs. More common programs like Microsoft
Word may also be used, as long as you save into RTF (Rich Text Format) for
transfer between platforms to try and get as many Mac PICT objects as possible
picked up by Windows as MetafilePICT - not for the weak of heart.
Regards,
Joe
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