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PICT was a really weird format. It's a stream of drawing instructions for Apple's old QuickDraw graphics layer. This could include bitmap graphics, but could al
by duskwuff 5y ago
PICT was a really weird format. It's a stream of drawing instructions for Apple's old QuickDraw graphics layer. This could include bitmap graphics, but could also include (semi-)vector operations like drawing lines, circular arcs, polygons, or text.
- jandrese 5y agoOf course this means making a third party reader means re-implementing QuickDraw and probably getting some nastygrams from Apple's lawyers.
- duskwuff 5y agoApple wouldn't care. QuickDraw doesn't exist in current versions of macOS -- Preview.app can't even display them. I've actually toyed with the idea of a PICT to SVG conversion tool. It's potentially useful for viewing certain old documents in the (long obsolete) Apple DocViewer format.