ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) (09/16/90)
Anyone know where I can get the PICT specification? I need to convert some PICT pictures to our proprietary format. Thanks, Eric
kw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Whitley) (09/19/90)
You can find specs for the PICT format in Inside Mac Vol V (pages 97-105). Note that there are both old fashioned PICTs and new (color) PICTs. But if you want to translate the PICT to another format, the easiest thing to do is to install your own drawing primitives into Quickdraw using the routine SetStdProcs (Inside Mac Vol I, page 197-198) and then draw the PICT normally - your routines will then get called to draw the lines, etc. and you can write out to file your proprietary format. This method was suggested to me by some kind person on the mac.programmer bulletin board (when I asked the PICT format question, seems like everybody asks it at some point) and it works like a charm. Kevin Whitley kw1r@andrew.cmu.edu