Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!starnine!bid
From: bid@starnine.UUCP (Tom Biddulph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Paint file format
Message-ID: <190@starnine.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 07:32:33 GMT
Organization: StarNine Techonoligies, Inc., Berkeley
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Keywords: paint mac fileformats

I'm sure this one has been asked before, but I would appreciate
any help that I can get.

I need to create Macpaint (or other paint format) files. Can
anyone steer me in the direction of the documentation that describes
the format of these files? I have looked at many hex dumps and
can't figure out where the "size" information is stored. It is
easy to recognize the bitmap, but the format of what i suspect is
the size (Rect?) doesn't look right.

This is just a start. I will probably need to decode all types
of paint files and document files (WRITE, WORD, ....).

I have ordered all of Apple's tech notes on the subject, but who
knows how long that will take.

Thanks,

Tom Biddulph
StarNine Technologies
(*IX)

P.S. If someone out there has a description of the "Apple double
header format" (at least, this is what I've been told its called)
I would appreciate it. This is the new header that goes on the
front of resource files (at least, under A/UX it does). I'm
currently fudging it, but I would like to know the REAL field
declarations.