Re: .max

Hello Ches--

I'm a Chicago Webgrrl and this topic came up last summer. I have made 
a digest of the question and responses, posted below. Btw, responder 
one (Angela Levegood) is on the Chicago Webgrrl board, so I assume 
her response is reliable. If you have further questions you'd like to 
pass along, I would be happy to accommodate.

Leslie

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>>At 14:18 +0000 8/29/00,<Heyou99(at)aol.com> wrote:
>>>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:18:16 EDT
>>>From: Heyou99(at)aol.com
>>>Subject: (query) .max extention?
>>>
>>>Anybody know what the .max extention is?  Someone sent me an attachment,
>>>supposedly a photograph, in this file format.  Tried looking it up on the
>>>Whatis?.com technical site, but it wasn't listed there.  Any help would be
>>>appreciated!
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jen
>
>At 16:53 -0600 8/29/00, "Levengood, Angela" <ALevengood(at)catconsult.com> wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:53:32 -0500
>>From: "Levengood, Angela" <ALevengood(at)catconsult.com>
>>Subject: RE: [wg-chi] (query) .max extention?
>>
>>Jen,
>>
>>Our company uses Visioneer Paper Port scanners, and their software saves
>>scanned files (photographs, text, etc.) in .max files.  I don't know if this
>>is a scanned file in general, or if it is proprietary to Visioneer.  What I
>>usually do for clients and co-workers who don't have this software is to
>>scan the item and save it as a .jpg or other universal file format.  You
>>might be able to get the sender to do this for you.
>>
>>If not, I might be able to help.
>>
>>Angela

At 19:06 -0600 8/29/00, "Lauren Goldberg" <lauren3(at)21stcentury.net> wrote:
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:06:58 -0500
>From: "Lauren Goldberg" <lauren3(at)21stcentury.net>
>Subject: (query) .max extention?
>
>Jen,
>The file was created in a  vector based animation and 3D modeling
>program called 3d Studio Max (PC).
>The person who sent this to you should have rendered out the file.  If
>this isn't an animation there are a number of formats that 3D studio can
>render out to (several of which photoshop accepts)  I usually render out
>as a targa.  If it is an animation, the file can be rendered out as an
>avi or targa sequence.  Those are the extentions I use but there are
>many more options.  This application is aprox.$3,000 - $3,500.
>
>If you want you can send me the file and I can render it out for you
>assuming I have the same version and it doesn't take 10 hours to render.
>
>"Anybody know what the .max extention is?"
>
>Lauren Goldberg
>

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At 10:10 AM -0600 11/9/00, Ches wrote:
>A while ago some one asked what a .max file was and how to convert is.
>Several of us, including myself, came up with several very expensive answers
>and, well, I am embarrassed to say, we were mostly wrong.
>
>Mostly, I say, because while the 3-d cad program does have .max extensions
>it is not the only one that is exclusively using or does it exclusively own
>that extension. Scanners do too. Very cheap kinds. There is not easy way to
>convert the file format to a usable graphical format other than to do a
>screen print of the image off a large monitor at a high res. Just had to do
>it from a client last night. I was able to get it to save as a jpg but at
>the size of 5 inches by 5 inches only. The graphic is 11 by 18 and it needed
>to be full size. The software? PaperPort. Now that I found it I am going to
>investigate into the full line of them and upgrades of the what the scanner
>can handle. The problem is not the software but the client and what they are
>willing to spend in the way of software. :)
>
>Let me know your war stories in this area of cheap scanner software and .max
>extensions!!!  AAA!!!
>
>Sincerely,
>Franchesca Havas
>McKinney, Texas

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