How to open .pct files

[Wade Smart]

11072005 1253 GMT-5

Hey, I want to thank all of you who have posted so quickly. I went to 
see my client this morning. I did some basic computer maintenance on 
their network and while I was at it, I worked quickly on some of those 
pictures.

So Gimp will convert to pct but not from? Interesting.

Since I have some time now Ill check out that ImageMagick.

Basically what Im doing with these pictures is, its for their catalog so 
they all have to be proofed. I go over them to make sure they look good 
for the most part. If I see any odd thing on the image I usually edit it 
out.

Wade


neil woolford wrote:
> 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
>