Converting mac image files to windows format

[Tai]

A friend has sent me a .jpg.hqx image file from a mac, however nothing I have can convert it to work on a windows PC.

Any recommendations or tips to convert this to a jpeg would be appreciated :)

Thanks

[jakem1]

Can't your friend just resend the image in a standard format?

[gazebee_]

Not sure, but try renaming it and removing ".hqx"

[Ricardo Gil]

Use winzip.

[Tai]

I've tried renaming the file, with no luck, and winzip doesn't seem to work on it either.

Any other ideas anyone ? Is there any cross platform image converter that could do this ?

Thanks

[Ricardo Gil]

  Tai said:

I've tried renaming the file, with no luck, and winzip doesn't seem to work on it either.

Any other ideas anyone ? Is there any cross platform image converter that could do this ?

Thanks

If WinZip is throwing that error then the file is probably broken. Just ask for the original JPG.

[Tai]

Ricardo Gil

thanks, yes, probably you're right, I also have Image Smith, which can't seem to detect any image in the file so will ask for the original

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

BinHex, what on earth? If your friend using System 7 or something? BinHex hasn't been needed for the last 9 years. I don't even know how he'd make a binhex file, the default method for compression is ZIP or something.

Yeah, just get him to send the original file.

[the evn show]

HQX is a compressed file format like Zip, RAR, Tgz, etc. It is not an image file format.

What you need is a program to extra extra the JPEG image(s) inside of the HQX container.

WinZIP should do the job but it's tossing up an error because the file is corrupted.

[John S. Veteran]

  Ricardo Gil said:

Use winzip.

(Y)

edit: waited too long to respond...yeah I'd just get him to resend the jpg as a jpg

[RadishTM Veteran]

Also try Stuffit Expander - http://my.smithmicro.com/win/stuffit/expander.html

Radish?