How to open .pct files

[neil woolford]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:44 +0000, john levin wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
> > 
> > I have a folder of about 250 images that Im editing for a client. They 
> > are in .pct format. Is there any program that will allow me to open this?
> > 

> .pct is the file format used by Macintosh QuickDraw. Doesn't look like 
> either the Gimp or Image Magick can open them - perhaps because it's a 
> propriatory format.

Gimp certainly can't in the default install, there *may* be plugins to
handle the task but my googling was inconclusive.

However, I've just installed ImageMagick from the Breezy repositories,
made a simple .pic format image with Photoshop on my Windows system,
copied the file across to my Ubuntu sytem and opened it for editing in
ImageMagick.  I was able to make and save a small (drawing) edit to the
image without problems.  You should also be able to apply transforms,
resize and convert to many other formats.

I invoked ImageMagick as 'display' which gives a basic gui.  It isn't
very intuitive, lots of use of right clicks to get to utterly hidden
menu trees...

Neil

PS ImageMagick seems to have been able to do this since 1992, if the
following header from their pict.c file is anything to go by...

/*
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%                                                                             %
%                                                                             %
%                                                                             %
%                        PPPP   IIIII   CCCC  TTTTT                           %
%                        P   P    I    C        T                             %
%                        PPPP     I    C        T                             %
%                        P        I    C        T                             %
%                        P      IIIII   CCCC    T                             %
%                                                                             %
%                                                                             %
%               Read/Write Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT Format.             %
%                                                                             %
%                              Software Design                                %
%                                John Cristy                                  %
%                                 July 1992                                   %
%                                                                             %
%                                                                             %
%  Copyright 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization      %
%  dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available.           %
%                                                                             %
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