GraphicConverter
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OS X

Viewing Art History Images Using GraphicConverter for OS X

Where to find this software:

GraphicConverter is Mac shareware. Wellesley College has purchased a site license to install it on all Macintosh computers on campus. GraphicConverter is on all public lab computers.

If GraphicConverter for OS X is not already installed on your OS X Mac, click to download GraphicConverter for OSX.

Digital images from many Art History courses are stored on a networked file server called NTM. By connecting to this file server and using GraphicConverter, you can view images, with or without comments, in a virtual slide show.

To connect to NTM:

  1. From the Finder, in the Go menu, select Connect to Server.
  2. In the Server Address section, type in ntm and click Connect. (If the following screen images look slightly different from what you see on your own computer, you're probably using an older version of OS X, but the steps are similar and should work fine. These directions and images are for OS 10.3 "Panther.")



  3. In the connect window, type your domain username into the "Name" box, and then your domain password.

  4. Click Connect.
  5. Once the Select window appears (shown below), make sure Art is highlighted, and click OK.

  6. An art server icon should now be on your Desktop.

How to use GraphicConverter Software

Go to your Macintosh HD and open theApplications folder. Locate the GraphicConverter folder, and open it. Double-click the GraphicConverter program icon.

To choose a lecture folder

From the File menu, choose Slide Show. The "Open" dialog box will appear. Move the blue horizontal slider bar all the way to the left, until you can see the Art server icon. Click once on it to select it, then to the right, select Art History Images, and so on until you find the lecture folder you want to view (e.g., ARTH101-04), select it, and then click Choose. The slide show will begin automatically.

A. To see all the slides from a lecture in order with comments:

Click on the GraphicConverter menu and select Preferences. Make sure that the check boxes in the dialog box you see on your screen match the settings shown in the figure below.

If a check box does not match the setting shown above, click the box to add or remove a check mark.

To make images in the slide show change to the next one when you click the mouse instead of after a delay of a specified number of seconds, choose Slide Show in the left-hand column of the Preferences window and then click on Misc. Under Change Picture, choose After mouse click. Click OK.

During a slideshow, a toolbar appears in the bottom left-hand corner that allows you to navigate through the slideshow.

You can move to the next slide in one of three ways: by clicking the mouse, pressing the spacebar, or clicking the forward button.

B. To view a slideshow in random order (to test yourself):

From the File menu, choose Slide Show. In the dialog box that appears choose Random Order in the list located on the bottom right-hand corner. Select the lecture folder (as described in section A).

If you wish to hide the file names and comments during the slide show, click the Options button to bring up the Slideshow General Settings Preferences and uncheck the boxes Name and Show comments.

Click Choose to start the slideshow.

Click the mouse or press the space bar to display the next random image. (If you press the arrow key on the keyboard, the order will not be random). The slide show will not stop once you have viewed all the files; it will continue to display the images until you stop the slide show, either by clicking the black square stop icon or by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard.

C. To view only selected files:

From the File menu, choose Open. Select an image in the dialog box and click the Open button.

If you do not see the comments, go to the Picture menu and choose Show Comments.

You can close one image before viewing another, or you can have several images open at a time.

D. To view two images side by side:

From the File menu, choose Open. A list of the images will appear. Click on one image, and click on Open. Return to the File menu to open other images.

If you do not see the comments, go to the Picture menu and choose Show Comments.

You may wish to choose Arrange Left to Right from the Windows menu.

Move between the images by clicking on their bottom right hand corners and dragging (to resize) or by clicking on the title of the image (to move the image).

How to Quit

From the File menu, choose Quit.

Disconnect from the Art server by dragging the Art server icon to the Trash on your desktop.

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