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The General Function Menus
Setup Print Menu
TIFF and GIF les on the Apple Macintosh Computer
T o convert TIFF and GIF les for use on the Apple Macintosh
TM
computer:
1. Make sure the Apple Macintosh computer has a 1.44 Mbyte disk drive , also
called \SuperDrive".
2. Use the Apple Computer File Exchange utility , provided with the Apple
Computer Macintosh System 7.0, to translate the MS-DOS
R
TIFF le
format to a le on the Macintosh computer . Select \Default" translation in
the \MS-DOS to MA C" menu.
3. Use a le editing utility , like ResEdit 2.1, available from Apple Computer ,
Inc., Macintosh ftp archive sites , or a local Macintosh User's group , to open
the TIFF le that you translated from MS-DOS
R
format to the Macintosh
computer .
T o use ResEdit, choose \Get File/F older Info . . . " from the \File" menu.
Change the \Type:" eld to \TIFF" for TIF les or change the \Type" eld
to \GIF" for GIF les . The type led must contain four characters , so make
sure to use a space as the last character .
4. Save the changes , and Exit ResEdit.
The le is now ready for importing into a Macintosh computer application
that can read TIFF les .
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