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PaintToEPS (now known as: BitMapToEPS)

History...
Version 1.0 - EPS, MacPaint, and PICT reading routines
Version 1.1 - Added Claris XTND interface to allow for external Translators.
Version 2.0 - Changed name to: "BitMapsToEPS",  Added QuickTime support.

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XTND, Copyright © 1989-91 Claris Corporation

Converts the following Macintosh file formats to B&W Encapulated PostScript Files (EPSF) or B&W PICT files:

Built-in Import Translators:
• MacPaint (B&W BitMap, 576 by 720)
• StartUp Screens (B&W BitMap, 512 by 342)
• PICT files (converted all PICT's to B&W BitMaps).
• QuickTime Movie player (when QuickTime is installed).

See below for more detail description of file formats.

Supports XTND translators for importing graphics format as PICT's.  This requires "Claris XTND System" file, which comes with all Claris products and some other 3rd Party products.

I have written a few XTND graphics translators, they are:

StartUpScreen - Reads Macintosh B&W Bitmaps 512 by 342 startup screens.
Windows (BMP) - Reads MS-DOS's Windows BMP bitmap format.

Click and Drag the selection rectangle in the picture to mark the area to be saved or edited.  Use "Select all" from the Edit menu to save the whole image.

Options Dialog

Use the "Options..." item in the Edit menu to set import/export options.  Defaults settings are displayed below:

This application support's System 7.0 "document dropping" feature.  To use this feature, drag one or more documents you would like to view onto the application, and release the mouse button when it is hilighted.

Current version does NOT include:
• the option to copy EPS file in the clipboard.
• the option to convert Color PICT to Grey Scale EPS BitMaps.

StartUp Screens

StartUp Screens  are B&W bitmaps with a size of 512 by 342.  The bitmap is stored on disk uncompressed.

This program converts all PICT files to B&W bitmaps coresponding to the original size.   It will save the selected area of the bitmap as a EPS file or a PICT file.

Macintosh File Type of: SCRN

MacPaint - B&W BitMaps

MacPaint bitmaps are compressed black & white bitmaps with a size of 576 by 720.

This program converts all PICT files to B&W bitmaps coresponding to the original size.   It will save the selected area of the bitmap as a EPS file or a PICT file.

Macintosh File Type of: PNGT

PICT

PICT file are the Macintosh native picture format.  It is storable as a resource of type 'PICT' or as a data file of type 'PICT'.  It is object oriented, and contains all the quick draw commands used to draw the image on the Macintosh screen (Font: Size, Style, type; Lines, circles, BitMaps, etc...).   

This program converts all PICT files to B&W bitmaps coresponding to the original size.   It will save the selected area of the bitmap as a EPS file or a PICT file.

Macintosh File Type of: PICT

EPSF - Encapulated PostScript Files

Encapulated PostScript files are special PostScript programs with a special header describing the with and height of the image described by program.   Preview images on the Macintosh are 'PICT' resourses ID 256 stored in the resource fork of the Macintosh file.    Other platforms create hex dumps of bitmap as a preview image or include TIFF (Tag Image File Format) or Meta File and a special 24 byte header describing the offset and size of the PostScript program, and the Preview image (TIFF/Meta File). 

The selected area of the bitmap is saved as a Black & White bitmap in an EPS file format.  This program only creates Macintosh 'PICT' preview images, selectable from the Options Dialog box. 

Macintosh File Type of:  EPSF

MooV - QuickTime™ Movie file

The Open... item in the File menu will play the selected QuickTime movie, in its ownn window.  You can use all the standard edit menu functions (Cut, Copy, Paste, and  Clear), but only resources of type "Moov"  can be pasted into a movie.

NOTE: This option requires QuickTime Exstension to be installed in the System Folder.

Macintosh File Type of:  MooV

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