How to open .pct files

[Wade Smart]

11072005 1304 GMT-5

I installed image magick through synaptic but... there is no icon for it 
  under the Graphics submenu and when I do a system wide search for 
image magick I get nothing. Am I missing something here?

Wade


neil woolford wrote:
> 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.           %
> %                                                                             %
>