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From: lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic)
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Subject: Re: Mac PICT ---> Apple PICT
Summary: A solution.
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Date: 19 Nov 89 12:07:23 GMT
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In article <3204@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) 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?
>
>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.
>
   ___
    |here's an easier way.  Simply save the picture in MacPaint format,
use Apple File Exchange to copy it to a ProDOS disk, load it into
SHRConvert as a "Macintosh"/"Macpaint => 640 mode" picture, and then
save it as a $C1 uncompressed picture file.  Don't use $C0 compressed
because AppleWorks GS doesn't support that, yet.

   ][ have never tried this, so I don't know how well it will work, if
at all.

>Howard C. Huang
>huang@husc4.harvard.edu
>huang@husc4.BITNET
>huang@husc4.UUCP

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