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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Mac PICT ---> Apple PICT
Summary: Possible, but not currently done
Message-ID: <36616@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 89 17:21:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: apple.36616
References: <17230002@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
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In article <17230002@hpfcdj.HP.COM> gillam@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Larry Gillam) writes:
>
>	Is there a "reasonable" way to convert the Macintosh PICT format 
>	to an Apple PICT format AND have it loadable by the paint module? 
>	Maybe use a different format?
>
>					Thanks,
>
>					Larry

Wow...what a well-spaced, easy to read question.  I could learn from this.

The PICT format is a QuickDraw Picture.  That's a series of QuickDraw commands
spooled to a special data structure.  QuickDraw has routines to take the 
Picture and "play it back", in effect redrawing it.  They're called PIC
because that's the Mac four-character resource type for resources containing
them.

You might guess that with Mac QuickDraw in three pieces (regular, Colo,
32-bit) and using a 68000, and with QuickDraw II in two pieces (QD, QDAux) and
using a 65816, there will be structural differences.  You would be right.
APDA sells PICT File Format notes describing Macintosh pictures, and we have
Apple IIgs Technical Note #46 describing IIgs pictures.

A translation program is possible but would be tricky to write.  To m
knowledge, no one has written one yet.

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