display of pict files in Windows

[Craig McPherson]

Thanks, Dave! I will try this out.

I have used Snapz in the meantime; the pict files it generates work  
on the Windows machine but involve a bunch of extra steps.
Craig McPherson
On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:03 AM, David Thompson wrote:

>> 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
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