FT Ship SSD, graphic file formats.

Could somebody convert these into a commonly readable format on a windows
platform and send them to me please

if it helps any....i have paint shop pro 4.11 and win95

thanks and later chris pratt valen10@flash.net

> Tim Jones wrote:

> On Monday, November 10, 1997 5:21 AM, Samuel Reynolds
Does
> Adobe Illustrator have other output options as it would be much better

On Monday, November 10, 1997 5:21 AM, Samuel Reynolds
> [SMTP:reynol@primenet.com] wrote:

I managed to read these into VISIO which did an OKish conversion, there were
some funnies with the text being compressed and some weird lines which looked
like pen up & pen down problems. Nice graphics tho.

VISIO is cool as it can output in quite a few of graphics formats including
all common vector and bitmap versions. It might be a nice idea to output some
less Mac centric versions and post them on above very nice the site? Does
Adobe Illustrator have other output options as it would be much better to do
it from the primary source, I'm thinking Computer Graphics Metafile or
Postscript or Potable Network Grphics Format ( is that vector ed?).

Bitmapped versions of vector drawings are always going to suck due to
approximations

sincerely

On Monday, November 10, 1997 3:04 AM, Christopher Pratt
> [SMTP:valen10@flash.net] wrote:

I'd reluctant to do this without a green light from Samuel Reynolds who did
the original work.

I can send you my own version but as I said its a vector format file and it
just wont produce anything useful for a bitmap program such as PSP 4.11. I
really have tried to produce a gif version but lines just drop out all over
the place., the only way to get a decent result is to use a stupid resolution
and the resulting file is huge.

The basic fact is that there are two flavours of SSD files, vector and raster.
For the best results the graphics are designed for that format and the
programs that manipulate them. Each file has to be designed for the format in
which is will be stored to give optimal results.

For Raster/Bitmaps (TIF,GIF,PCX,BMP etc)
--------------------
Alan Delafield's ssd and symbols

http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu/FT/shipbits.zip

Peter Caron's ssd, symbols, fleet sheet

http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu/FT/genfleet.zip

http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu/FT/systems.zip

For Vector (AI, VSS, CGM, Postscript etc)

> It might be a nice idea to output some
Does
> Adobe Illustrator have other output options as it would be much better

> Could somebody convert these into a commonly readable format on a

You know, I put mailto links on the page with the files just so people could
make such requests to me directly, and not clutter up the list. The page text
says to email me if you need another format, and I'll see about adding it to
the page. I'd just as soon not email copies in numerous formats to numerous
people across the web; that's what the page is for.

They're in Illustrator because that's a more universal format than ClarisDraw
(not to mention a better one), and because it's what I have. It can save to
PNG format, but I think that's a bitmap format, not a "vector" format (someone
correct me if I'm wrong). It will also render the files into several other
bitmap formats, including TIFF. I could also save some of them as EPS files.
You'd have to have an application that can dissassemble EPS files to be able
to use the Standard Hulls and Symbols files, though. If you want to try that,
I'll do the save-as and put it on the page.

- Sam