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Good question. I saved the original document as RTF and extracted what I believe is the raw PICT binary data, but quickly decided on the Acrobat route when I re
by jasomill 3y ago
Good question. I saved the original document as RTF and extracted what I believe is the raw PICT binary data, but quickly decided on the Acrobat route when I realized I didn't know of any software that could easily convert PICT to a more modern vector format (other than by printing the PICT to Acrobat PDF, but that's essentially what I did in Word with extra steps).
If you want to give it a go, here's the raw PICT data from the RTF:
https://jasomill.at/Picture1.PICT https://jasomill.at/Picture1.PICT
(extracted from RTF tag \pict\macpict\picw513\pich459)
https://jasomill.at/Picture2.PICT https://jasomill.at/Picture2.PICT
(\pict\macpict\picw410\pich327)
https://jasomill.at/Picture3.PICT https://jasomill.at/Picture3.PICT
(\pict\macpict\picw420\pich291)
and here are MacBinary-encoded[1] PICT files containing the same data:
https://jasomill.at/Picture1.bin https://jasomill.at/Picture1.bin
https://jasomill.at/Picture2.bin https://jasomill.at/Picture2.bin
https://jasomill.at/Picture3.bin https://jasomill.at/Picture3.bin
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBinary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBinary
Encoding is required because the PICT file format stores image data in the file's resource fork[2].
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
- Gormo 3y agoJust tried it and confirmed that LibreOffice can indeed read PICT files as vector images and re-export to SVG. This can be scripted using the `--convert-to` option on the LibreOffice command line.