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GetGraphic is a program written to run under GEOS, and convert Print Shop compatable graphics into pictures in a GEOS Photo Album. Once they get converted into the Photo Album, you can use the GEOS Photo Manager to copy the picture to a Photo Scrap which can be pasted into any geoWrite or geoPaint document. GetGraphic is designed to convert a whole disk full of graphic pictures into a single Photo Album. Due to the limitations of a GEOS Photo Album, only 127 graphics will fit into one album, but GetGraphic allows you to select as many or as few pictures to put into your album. Since GetGraphic uses the compression techniques available with GEOS, the amount of disk space occupied by the GEOS versions of the pictures will be less than the originals. Additionally, since a Photo Album is only one directory entry, it is possible to get more graphics on one disk.

Operation of GetGraphic is very simple. After double clicking on the GetGraphic ICON, you will see the main menu with four options. The first is GEOS. This option lets you run any Desk Accessories which were on the disk you loaded from. Since GetGraphic allows you to change disks for both the Print Shop graphics and the output Photo Album, GetGraphic may instruct you to switch disks to run a Desk Accessory. The GEOS option also provides information on GetGraphic, and where to send the User Support fee (in case you forget).

The second menu entry is Done. This is obviously for when you are done with GetGraphic and want to return to the DeskTop. Just in case you accientially clicked on this entry, there is a sub item called Quit. Click on Quit if you really want to return to the DeskTop.

The fourth menu entry is Help. Help provides a series of Help screens which give a simple explaination of how to run GetGraphic, and what the menu entries do. It is not as detailed as this document, but can be a good reminder.

Begin is the third menu entry. It starts the conversion process. The first question you will be asked is whether you want to CREATE a new Photo Album, or OPEN an existing ablum and add on to it. If you elect to CREATE a new album, GetGraphic will ask you for the album name, and make sure that one doesn't already exit. If one exists, you will be asked if you want to try a new name, or delete the old version and replace it with a new one. If you selected OPEN, GetGraphic gives you a scrolling list of Photo Album names (simular to the window PhotoManager uses). Click on the name you want to highlight it, and then click on the OPEN box to select it. GetGraphic will add the new graphics to the end of an existing Photo Album (still only 127 graphics will fit in a single ablum). Both CREATE and OPEN have a DISK click box which allows you to change disks so you can put the Photo Album on a different disk than GetGraphic was loaded from. If you have two drives, there will also be a DRIVE box which allows you to put the album on the other drive.

After you have specified where to put the Photo Album, GetGraphic presents a window to give you a chance to insert your disk with the Print Shop graphics. This disk does not have to be a GEOS disk (nor will it be converted to one). Again, if you have two drives, there will be a DRIVE click box which you can click on to use the other drive.

Once you have inserted the disk with the input graphics, GetGraphic will present a screen full of filenames for you to select from. GetGraphic attempts to filter out files which are not Print Shop graphics, but it is possible to "fool" it, so look at the names if you have inserted a disk which has graphics and programs on it. There are three click boxes on the bottom of the screen with the file names.

The first is labeled DONE, and you click on this after you have made all your selections of files to be converted. The second is labeled Next Page. You click over this box to see the next screen page of file names. Each screen will hold up to 52 file names. Clicking over Next Page repeatedly will cycle back to the start of the file names. The third box is Select All. This is a quick way to indicate that you want to convert all the files on the disk without having to go and click on each file name. You can still go back and unselect files after clicking on Select All