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From: larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem Converting Mac PICT file to Portable Bitmap
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Date: 27 Dec 90 23:22:34 GMT
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I'm testing 'pbmplus' program 'picttopbm' & have a problem.

I created a Macintosh PICT file using PixelPaint and transferred it to a Sun3
in the subdirectory containing 'picttopbm' using TOPS. (Later I used the Mac
'File Exchange Program' to copy the same PICT file to an IBM AT & used FTP to
copy it to the Sun3.  Then I did a compare of the two versions of the Mac 
file & found no differences.)

However, when I run 'picttopbm' on the file I get the following message. 
     picttopbm: unknown PICT2 opcode - 0x0c00 - cant't handle

Can some experienced users of 'pbmplus' tell us what's wrong, or suggest how 
we should attempt to do this conversion?  Should we use something beside 
PixelPaint to create the PICT file, for instance?  Or should we create a 
Macintosh TIFF file, perhaps, instead of PICT?

				Larry Carroll