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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem Converting Mac PICT file to Portable Bitmap
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.160019.27612@alphalpha.com>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:00:19 GMT
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In article <10860@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) writes:
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>I'm testing 'pbmplus' program 'picttopbm' & have a problem.
I've had a number of "unknown upcode" and other problems with picttopbm.
For some reason it doesn't always get all the pels it expects and I
can't figure out the PICT2 docs enough to figure out why.  I once even
got a picture where every N scan lines were shifted to the right.  There
also seems to be a bug in pbmtopict, that the width and height stored
in the file aren't always correct.  Some programs on the Mac just look
at the data and ignore this, others pay attention to what it says and
will treat the image as though it were truncated.

						-kee
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