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Posted by Neil Riley (Member # 383) on :

Just received via email a heap of picture files to be printed. Problem is they are a mac file ending in .hqx.
Anyone know how I can open or convert these?
I have Signlab and CorelDraw on a PC.
Cheers, Neil Riley

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Neil Riley
Riley Signs
Adelaide,
South Ozzz
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Posted by Philippe JACQUES (Member # 664) on :

.hqx is the extension used to define a binhex encoding of a Mac file.

You could uncompress it using the free-to-download Windows version of Stuffit Expander. For more info, just take a look at :

http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/index.html

Expander gives you access to files compressed in all these common and not-so-common formats: StuffIt (.sit), Zip (.zip), gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), lha (.lha), ARC (.arc), Arj (.arj), uuencode (.uue), BinHex (.hqx), Macbinary (.bin), MIME/Base64, and self-extracting StuffIt (.sea), Zip, and Arj archives.

Note unencoding a file could not be enough to be able to read it : your software must be able to translate the result in its own file format. This depends of the format of the source file and of the import capabilities of your drawing software.

For people who commonly have to convert Mac Illustrator file and cut them, I recommand to buy a cheap Mac (or second hand) and to plot the files from Adobe Illustrator itself using my solutions.

NCS MagiSign, for Adobe Illustrator 8 or 9
SignofNCS, for Adobe Illustrator 5 to 7.

Please note the older one is… free to download from NCS MagiSign website.

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