Speaking of pictures, I found a set of clipart cds at the library book sale. I did not have my glasses with me, so I didn't notice that they are for Windows (copyright 2000).

Is there any way to open them on my mac, or did I just do a mitzvah for the library?

I presumed you already tried? Macs will open a lot of windows file formats and can reach most windows CDs. There are utilities out there that others can support you through, but before you do anything else you might try to just open the clip art. (the Mac probly won't run the garbagy search program that comes with the clip art, but the Mac built in search capability is better anyway.

I did try to bring stuff up in Word. Didn't

The only thing that works so far is bringing up a file in openoffice, then saving it as a jpg and importing. Super tedious.

What is the file extension on the individual image files?

Rob, they are .wmf

I can't find any easy way to convert .wmf files on the Mac.

Thanks for the effort, Rob.

It was one of those too good to be true deals. Ah well. Maybe I can find a school that can use the disks.

There are lots of batch converter programs for converting wmf files to jpg. If somoene you know has a windows computer they can download a batch computer, convert all the wmf files to jpg than give you a disk with the jpeg files. The mac should be able to then read it with no problem.

Here is a batch wmf image converter for the mac that has a batch mode. Don't know offhand if it is free or not. [link]

At any rate google batch wmf converters for Mac.

Thanks, Typo.