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- Path: sparky!uunet!highlite!alan
- From: alan@highlite.uucp (Alan McConnell)
- Subject: Re: PICT format? HELP!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.134041.16587@highlite.uucp>
- Keywords: PICT, C
- Organization: Gotham Communications Research
- References: <1992Jul24.111651.6707@highlite.uucp>
- Distribution: comp.graphics
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:40:41 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- dlreed@highlite.uucp (David L. Reed) writes:
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- > I need to open PICT files, process the image they contain, and
- >write a new PICT file. I look at the stuff on PICT in Inside Macintosh
- >V p 80 ff and find it cryptic, perhaps because it's Pascal,
- >perhaps because it needs to "display" at the same time. Can someone
- >out there give me a lead as to the format of a PICT file? if the info
- >was slanted toward C that would be gravy . . Thanks in advance!
- >Alan McConnell
-
- >--
- >Alan McConnell "What wondrous life is this I lead!
- >Pixel Analysis Ripe apples drop about my head . ."
- >--
- >David L. Reed: dlreed@gotham.com dlreed@highlite.uucp uunet!highlite!dlreed
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- This is Alan McConnell again - I was having trouble posting(why
- does nn require a blank first line??) so my kindly sysop Dave Reed
- posted for me. I use this opportunity to elaborate slightly:
- 1. All kind and helpful persons with info should post to _me_,
- alan@highlite.gotham.com.
- 2. I have been made aware that OpenPicture, WritePicture, etc, are
- provided by Apple, altho I haven't tried them, and the docs are still,
- for me at least, a tad murky. But PICT format is, so I am told,
- increasingly used on other boxes, and I might wish to write a
- PICT file reader for a DOS box . . etc. So I'd really like to
- have "specs" for a PICT file, if such exist.
- 3.(fools rush in . . .) In my extremely limited experience lurking
- on comp.graphics I've seen a remarkable number of requests like mine;
- "how does one read/write format ZYX?" Should some expert start
- developing a FAQ with answers to these questions? I'd be happy to
- cooperate by e.g. posting what I know/hope-to-learn about PICTS,
- TIFS, GIFS, etc.
-
- Thanks in advance for all help! Alan McConnell
- --
- Alan McConnell "What wondrous life is this I lead!
- Pixel Analysis Ripe apples drop about my head . ."
-