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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Mac PICT ---> Apple PICT
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Date: 19 Nov 89 03:14:10 GMT
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In article <36616@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>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?
>>
>A translation program is possible but would be tricky to write.  To m
>knowledge, no one has written one yet.

I missed the entire question, but if you have a Macintosh paint program
that can read your PICT files and save them back to disk as a GIF file,
you can transfer that GIF picture to a IIgs and then use SHRConvert by
Jason Harper (shareware) to convert it to one of many IIgs picture
formats, including the $C0 filetype that most paint programs accept.

GIF is Graphics Interchange Format, and I guess CompuServe developed it
so they could encode one picture in a format that many computers could
decode.

Howard
huang@husc4.harvard.edu




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