From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 23:26:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DF416A41A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AC3713C447 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 1427 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2007 23:26:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:In-Reply-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=YGA8SqS6ucjzRzgWEE63ts4AErljInxCcg/PKTJx9d5+CzE4h8QBQUQSQMEzeuE3dOc5kQtHqQZW/3G+rYHqIIIUev+TwovnaUSf+aIIb3gYmwctE5lx66dfA0fMhHPUQDcLrl16XVcrdudtcxdk5KGxyYhG+pG09lXGCOeQrRk= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2007 23:26:47 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: ULH3kKcVM1kM7SFzohXsYeN_IJDfoqjORk.i2xOXHQ79ga6nI1mLKv9RZtEPcEJpjVZDgDv5pydC5.DTw7PryHvShy6dpCWgudcutLsFnjgZgVa4kac- In-Reply-To: <20071003234247.630ccee0@meijome.net> References: <20071003234247.630ccee0@meijome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <50f8121ffd5234a62406746d36951b05@prodigy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:27:31 -0700 To: Norberto Meijome X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML Subject: Re: .PICT mac file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:26:49 -0000 On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a load of .pict files which I can't seem to be able to open > with anything under FBSD. I just want to convert them into something > more useful (jpg / tiff / svg). > > ImageMagick doesn't understand it, so i think this is the Packbits > compressed .PICT filetype. neither Gimp or XV like them either. > > file doesn't identify the files either. > > Alternatively, any tool I can script under OSX to conver them to > something useful? (FYI, 'Preview' under Tiger doens't recognise them > either, but I can drag them just fine into an Omnigraffle Pro > diagram). > > One of these files is at > http://www.meijome.net/files/freebsd/image64.pict > > thanks, > Beto > _________________________ > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome > > "Intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her > intelligence'" > Arthur C. Clarke, from "3001, The Final Odyssey", Sources. > > I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery > when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is > worse. You have been Warned. > You may have to use a program like Photoshop; Mac version to do the work. I have been using Mac since 1996 and have seen pict files but have avoided them mostly in favor of tif or jpeg. I do not have any Classic Mac installations and do not do graphics as much as I used to but I don't recall even seeing pict as a file option for graphics software on Mac, Photoshop, or other program that edits image files. Since X11 can be installed on OSX and Gimp will run on Mac under X11, I would think that it would have accommodation for that. I just launched it and did not see that as a save as option. There is a stripped down version of Photoshop available, Photoshop Elements that may do it without the cost of Photoshop. But there is probably someone with more knowledge on this than I. Good Luck; Jeff k