[comp.sys.apple] help.. PICT format.

ash@ibmpcug.UUCP (Ashley Saulsbury) (04/18/89)

Does anybody out there have any details on the file format for scanned PICT
(and/or GIFF) images from the Mac ?

The PICT format seems to involve some form of run-length encoding .. ie not
totally compressed .. though at my cursory glance the format is not immediately
obvious.

A friend has scanned in some piccys for me .. weve bounced the files down
to MS-DOS disks (emphasis on the word down!) so that I could transfer them to
different machines .. in particular the Atari 1040 ..

Now Im interested in having the file formats so that I may customise my own
code. However, if there is any source code which I could glean the relevent
details from that would be *gratefully* appreciated !

.. thanks very much .. Ashley Saulsbury,
The Queens College, Oxford, OX1 4AW, England.

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