[comp.sys.mac] PICTURE FILE FORMATS

carasso@nunki.usc.edu (Roger David Carasso) (09/08/89)

TWO VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD APPRECIATE AS MUCH INPUT ABOUT:

1) What is the most "standard" COLOR picture format for the Mac?

2) Can you tell me the file format of that standard?

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I'm trying to port Mac COLOR pictures over to another computer (a Sun).

Problems: - MacPaint format is only black and white (Versions I and II).
	  - Pict format is SO complicated!  It stored the picture as a bunch
	      of op-codes of operations used to generate the picture.
	  - I don't think Tiff stores the color values, just a grey scale.
	      Also, I think it produced files that are really large.
	  - A format like "pixelpaint" is not standard, and I don't have any 
	      documents on how it is stored.

IF ANYONE COULD HELP ME, I WOULD *GREATLY* APPRECIATED IT!


THANK YOU,

Roger Carasso