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Subject:Re: Graphics for both PC and Mac From:Walter Hanig <wdh -at- NETMANAGE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:21:23 -0800
At 03:11 PM 3/26/98 -0800, Marilynne Smith wrote:
>My department uses both Maintosh and PC. We find that our graphics are not
>sharable between the two types of computer. Is there a standard or method
>that would give us good graphics from the same file in both Mac and PC?
>
>Marilynne
depending on the application that's going to use the graphic and the type of graphic (screenshot? photo? line drawing?), TIF, GIF, and JPG can be good cross-platform formats.
walter
Walter Hanig
NetManage, Inc.
12651 High Bluff Drive
San Diego, CA 92130, USA
