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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Mac PICT ---> Apple PICT
Keywords: Garcia, genesis, bluestocking, chow
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Date: 21 Nov 89 02:31:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU's message of 19 Nov 89 12:07:23 GMT

In article <5894@lindy.Stanford.EDU> lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic) writes:

> 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.

... and AWGS probably never will, because it's a fairly useless filetype.
The problem is that it's a packed format ($C0, aux $0003) that has no
description of the unpacked size.  There's no way of determining how big a
buffer you need to unpack it into... 1K, 2K, 4Meg, 5Gig... or whatnot.  AWGS
does support [$C0, $0000]: PaintWorks Packed Super Hi-Res Picture, [$C0,
$0001]: Packed Apple IIGS SHR Image, and [$C0, $0002]: Apple Preferred Format
<although AWGS doesn't deal well with bad APF files that a PaintWorks bug can
create>, [$C1, $0000]: SHR Screen Image (screen dump), and [$C1, $0001]:
Quickdraw II PICT.

(yes, Matt, I know those aren't the exact official names of the filetypes,
but it's close enough for horseshoes).


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