Bitmap trouble with E-Prime

[leigh]

I know that the images have to be in bitmap format for E-Prime, but my images are currently in tiff format and when I convert my tiff images to bmp on my mac, E-Prime will not recognize the bmp files. Do you know how to fix this? I can convert the tiff to bmp images on a PC and it works, BUT on a PC a black border is added to the images when switching from a tiff to bmp that I do not want (it is a memory paradigm so the black border can't be there bc it is NOT there in the recognition trial), so I would much prefer using the Mac created bmp files.

Thank you for any help that you can provide!

Leigh

[David McFarlane]

Leigh,

Ah, good old Mac to PC conversion problems...

Well, actually, PST lifted the .bmp restriction with E-Prime 2, so if
you have that version then according to
http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=360 you may now use
*.bmp, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *gif, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, *.emf, and
*.wmf. So give that a try.

If you are stuck with EP1, then I would try copying the .tiff files
to the PC and doing the .bmp conversion using PC software. Since you
obviously already have the PC (else you could not run E-Prime), this
should pose no burden.

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