How to open .pct files

[neil woolford]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:41 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> Am Montag, den 07.11.2005, 16:09 +0000 schrieb neil woolford:
> > > 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?

> > 
> > 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...

Correction!  And left clicks for the drawing tools and other things!
The F1 key does bring up quite a lot of information about the user
interface.

> > 
> > Neil
> > 
> i also was curious and first thought gimp could do this...
> i then fiddled around with 'convert' and it seems it can handle
> pict-files rather well. i did
> 	convert png > pct
> 	convert pct > jpg/whatever
> and the output looks like the original file.
> 
> so maybe a small bash-script which converts all the files in a usable
> format will do the trick?
> and better NOT ask me about scripting :)
> 
> ulrich
> 

The best way to deal with this is going to depend on what kind of
editing needs to be done to the images;  an action like resizing for
thumbnails, changing mode (eg colour to monochrome) or changing file
format would almost certainly be best done from the command line or a
script.  Actual manual editing could either be done in the 'display'
invocation of ImageMagick or by batch converting into something that
(say) the Gimp can handle, then batch converting back afterwards.

Although I'm no fan of the user interface of ImageMagick, there is no
doubt that the underlying programs are of high quality and provide
excellent conversions and manipulations.  I wouldn't expect noticeable
quality loss even with repeated conversions between formats.  (Providing
sensible settings are used for lossy compression, eg. jpegs.)

Neil
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