Format
Macintosh PICT Image
Summary
- Name
- Macintosh PICT Image
- Version
- 2.0
- Identifiers
-
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.apple.pict
- PUID: fmt/341
- MIME: image/x-pict
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- A graphics format native to Macintosh computers encapsulating the functionality of QuickDraw 2 which supports monochrome and 8 bit color bitmaps.
- Note
- http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/PICT
- File extensions
-
pct,pict,pic - Submitted by
- Georgia Tech Research Institute / Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Developed by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Supported by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
Relationships
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
Macintosh PICT Image 2.0 (colour images)
- Description
- 512 byte header, 2-byte picture size, 8 bytes picture frame (rectangle), version operator (0011h); version number (02FFh); Version operator (0C00h). The PICT format can be written by a number of applications; as a result the 512 byte header either includes information about the particular software which created the file, or is all zeros. The version operator and version number information is constant across objects of this format.
- Provenance
- Signature identified by Georgia Tech Research Institute
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 522
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
001102FF0C00- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
-
Updated
Macintosh PICT Image 2.0: Description created as part of PRONOM Research Week 2023. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
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V69
- Release date
- 19 July 2013
-
Updated
Macintosh PICT Image 2.0: Added vendor information.
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V51
- Release date
- 15 July 2011
-
Added format
Macintosh PICT Image 2.0: Outline entry added. Submission from Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.
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Added signature
Macintosh PICT Image 2.0: Signature submitted by Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA.