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.
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Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2014 1:04:49 pm PST #23543 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
beekaytee - Jan 11, 2014 2:26:02 pm PST #23544 of 25496
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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.
Rob - Jan 11, 2014 2:46:52 pm PST #23545 of 25496
What is the file extension on the individual image files?
beekaytee - Jan 11, 2014 3:05:58 pm PST #23546 of 25496
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Rob, they are .wmf
Rob - Jan 11, 2014 4:40:52 pm PST #23547 of 25496
I can't find any easy way to convert .wmf files on the Mac.
beekaytee - Jan 11, 2014 4:48:36 pm PST #23548 of 25496
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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.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2014 5:04:08 pm PST #23549 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2014 5:06:51 pm PST #23550 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
beekaytee - Jan 11, 2014 5:15:31 pm PST #23551 of 25496
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Thanks, Typo.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2014 5:26:53 pm PST #23552 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
You might try the wmf convert pro. It is one of the downloads at this address. [link]
It is a trial version, but if you are luck the limitation is time period and you can convert all the images to some other format before it expires. There is also a more general
Better yet here is a program that claims to be complete free. [link] Convert whole folder at a time just like the other one. I'm not 100% sure it handles wmf, but only one way to find out.