Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:25:41 -0700 From: Eric Osterweil <eoster@cs.ucla.edu> To: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: .PICT mac file Message-ID: <3052B285-F2E8-4DB6-BD97-989D85088942@cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <50f8121ffd5234a62406746d36951b05@prodigy.net> References: <20071003234247.630ccee0@meijome.net> <50f8121ffd5234a62406746d36951b05@prodigy.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 3, 2007, at 4:27 PM, jekillen wrote: > > 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 Save it from OmniGraffle as a pdf (via the Export option), then anything should be able to convert it from there (like Preview).\ Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHBp3LK/tq6CJjZQIRAniAAJ4jysJxbttx7+NhKqpKe6g1TDxU/gCgkRCG o0bNFzoDFmWAALmSokJebOI= =uofz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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