[net.micro.pc] Pcpaint file format?

ugthomas@sunybcs.UUCP ( Timothy Thomas) (05/23/85)

Does anyone know the storage format of pcpaint picture files?  I have
about 30 digitized pictures in pcpaint format, but I would like to
write some sort of slide-show program for them.

Could somebody could tell me the format of the data file and/or how to
draw them on the screen without using pcpaint? (or, if there is already
a slide-show type program for these pictures, could you mail/post or
tell me how to get it?)

Thanx in advance,


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pier@ur-univax.UUCP (05/24/85)

Please respond to the net as I am also interested.

By the way the ENERGRAPHICS package has a slide show feature among other nice
features. I don't have any ideas in what format those slides are however.
They are created by the package.
In case somebody is interested:

Enertronics Research Inc
150 North Meramec
Suite 207
St Louis, Missouri 63105
(314) 725-5566

I have no affiliation with Enertronics except as a satisfied customer.


Pierre Darmon
niversity of Rochester

james@inmet.UUCP (05/25/85)

PCPaint stores pictures in a 16k screen image format.  I have successfully
loaded them and fiddled with them from other programs.  The utility 
I use for picture shows is Grafix Partner, which sits in memory like
Sidekick, and allows you to capture any medium res image on the screen.
Now that I think about, maybe I didn't use PCPaint's format, after all-
only scarfed the pix with G.P.  wait one...

Just dropped out for a second and checked. Sure enuf, it works fine.
I renamed sailing.pic from the PCPaint disk to sailing.bsv and
the Grafix Partner "cycle" program displayed it just fine.  Cycle
allows you to make a list of pictures to show and how long they will
be up.
 					James Triplett