PNG on Mac was Squeak Morphs on the OS Desktop

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Wed Feb 21 03:45:01 UTC 2001


Eudora likes PNG files ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:36 PM -0800 2/20/01, C. Keith Ray wrote:
>[...]
>>>  ... as long as they don't have Macintoshes, which don't seem to understand
>>>  the .PNG format.
>>>
>>>  Is there a solution for this, all you Mac users?
>>>
>>>  I've tried to send .PNG files to my friend Steve who is a Mac user, but he
>>>  can't read them with anything. He can view them if they're inline 
>>>images in a
>>>  web page, but his browsers won't display them by themselves (unlike .GIF or
>>>  .JPG files).
>>
>>  I think I've used iCab and a PNG image I've FTPed down (exported out of
>>  pine).  I'm at work on a windows machine now, so I might be wrong, but I
>>  think this has worked for me.
>
>PNG images work for me in Netscape 4.61, IExplorer 5, and iCab 2.4. Apple's
>PictureViewer can open them for viewing. Photoshop 5 can open and edit them.
>I'm using MacOS 9.0.4.
>
>If you are using MacOS 8 or earlier on PowerPC, download the latest version
>of QuickTime to get system support for PNG and a whole bunch of other image
>formats.
>
>My PNG files have finder type 'PNGf' and creator type 'ogle'.
>
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>
>C. Keith Ray
><http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/resume.html>





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