At 10:06 PM +0100 9/17/02, you wrote: >Hi all... > >I know I'm slightly off-topic with this one, but I'm curious about a bit of >theory behind the development. What is the benefit of Import PICT as PICT? >Is there something special about the PICT format that I've missed all of >these years? > >One of the many D8.x books I have says that (paraphrased) "use this option >to prevent PICTs being converted to bitmaps" but I was always under the >impression that PICT is a raster-based format so it's treated as a bitmap >anyway. > >I use PNGs almost exclusively now anyway, but would appreciate some insight >into this - y'never know, I might end up changing the way I do things! > >Cheers as always, > >Ross
The PICT file format supports embedded shapes as well as bitmaps. In the past days (when this feature was included), these type of PICT files were more common. Nowadays, almost all PICTs are pure bitmap (often JPEG). This feature was to tell Director to not rasterize the shapes, which would allow those members to be stretched cleaner, etc. hth -Buzz [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
