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(* CONVERT.DOC *)
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(* (c) March 1986 Donald L. Pavia *)
(* Department of Chemistry *)
(* Western Washington University *)
(* Bellingham, Washington 98225 *)
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CONVERT.COM is a program that will convert files from other paint
programs into a form that can be directly loaded into Turbo Pascal
programs. For instance, CONVERT will convert a picture file from
PC Paint to one that may be used by Turbo Paint or be called into any
Turbo Pascal Program by use of the procedures in LOADSAVE.LIB.

Since these files are stripped of their header you must set the
screen mode, background color, and palette BEFORE you load the picture.
Typically, this can be done with statements of the following type in
your code :
GraphColorMode; GraphBackGround (1); Palette (2);

The following offsets have been determined for use of the CONVERT
utility program.

PC Paint .PIC file to Turbo 7
Polaroid Palette .GPH file to Turbo 8
PC Pilot BSaver .BSV file to Turbo 7
BASIC BSAVE screen to Turbo 7

As I am not familiar with other programs, you will have to experiment.
The conversion must be done on 16,000+ byte files. Files from programs
using a compressed format for files (e.g., PC PaintBrush, Dr. Halo)
cannot be converted. Therefore, when using PC Paint be sure to save the
file in the uncompressed format.

Don't forget that PC Paint and Polaroid Palette have screen capture
utilities. If you load these you can capture screens from many other
programs.

Donald L. Pavia, March 1986