RE: [Starry Night] Converting JPEG planetary maps to PICT

[Colin Holgate]

>  > If you're on a Mac you can just name the JPEG as if it were a PICT.
>>  Just change the .jpg part to .pct.
>
>Yikes! Not a good practice since you are relying on the converting code to
>ignore your attempts at subterfuge and recognise the file from its internal
>format.


It's been normal that a PICT file might be JPEG compressed data, and 
so there's no big deal about it being handled ok. The advantage 
(apart from not having to do a conversion) is that the file size 
stays as it was as a JPEG, it doesn't bloat up to become the size of 
an uncompressed bitmap.



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