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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Modern TIFF/EPS/image formats for use in System 6/7? | Posted by: Garrett on 2022-06-08 12:04:10
As a follow up to my last thread about modern TrueType fonts in System 7 (which I actually wrote a blog post about), I have another related issue: How can I get modern TIFF, EPS, or other image formats (PICT?) into a format that most software can recognize in System 6 and System 7.
When I had Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, I found ways to export into a legacy format (TIFF and EPS) Aldus PageMaker 4.0 could read. However, unfortunately, I no longer use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator here, instead opting for Serif's Affinity Photo and Designer. After exporting the output TIFF and EPS files from Photo/Designer, none of my old software (Aldus PageMaker 4, FreeHand 3, SuperPaint) could recognize them.
Any thoughts on a way to convert these graphics to a format (TIFF, EPS) the old software can recognize? I'm guessing there's a backwards compatibility issue here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as always. | Posted by: dcr on 2022-06-08 12:36:10
From Affinity Designer or Photo, for TIFF, are you exporting as 8-bit? Compression either LZW or none?
And, for EPS, are you exporting as Postscript Level 2?
Those are the only things I can think of. If that doesn't work, maybe Graphic Convertor can convert TIFF to an older version? EPS (vector-based) would be more challenging to convert. I still have CS3 as long as the computer it's on lives, so I can convert to older formats when needed. I also have a licensed version of CS2 as a fallback.
If you want to go a real roundabout way on vector-based EPS files and they aren't complex files, use a font creator and import the artwork as glyphs, make a PostScript font out of it, install that font on your System 6/7 computer, open FreeHand, type the appropriate letter for the artwork, convert to curves and save as an EPS. | Posted by: ktkm on 2022-06-08 12:44:08
Have you tried an online converter? SVG to EPS could do the trick. Do you have an example file? | Posted by: olePigeon on 2022-06-08 14:10:50
@Garrett Did you try GraphicConverter? | Posted by: Garrett on 2022-06-08 14:20:00
@Garrett Did you try GraphicConverter?
I've tried "Save As" in GraphicConverter 11, but didn't have any luck. Maybe I should try going from JPG to TIFF (as I think I was going from a TIFF to TIFF) or maybe SVG to EPS? | Posted by: timtiger on 2022-06-14 22:41:56
I was trying different graphic formats some time ago to transfer images from new osx to osx 10.4 to system 7.1 - the best results I had using tga files… Maybe that helps.
I‘m curious to hear if you were successful! | | 1 |
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