display of pict files in Windows

[David Thompson]

>Thanks, James, I don't have PhotoShop but I will look around for 
>something else to generate  pict images and see if they work. These 
>were captured screen shots using command-shift-4,  opened in Preview 
>as .png and then Saved As PICT. They show in the flash art just fine 
>in Panorama but not on Windows, as mentioned.

I've done some testing with a demo copy of Panorama for Windows. It 
seems that the PICT files that are created by Panorama's 
ClipToPictFile command will display in a Flash Art SuperObject in 
Windows. If you use command-control-shift-4 to capture your screen 
shot on the Mac, the image will be put on the clipboard instead of 
creating a PNG file. Then you could run a procedure like this in 
Panorama

Local folder,file
file = "GQ1.pict"
SaveFileDialog folder,file,"Save this file as:"
if file = "" stop endif
ClipToPictFile folderpath(folder)+file

PICT files that have been created by Preview can't be opened by 
PhotoShop CS2 for Windows either, although PhotoShop CS2 for 
Macintosh has no trouble with them.

Dave