Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thank you Fred!

Woah! Deark is sooooo cool! All those incredible file formats!

So, following some recommendations on the file formats wiki linked above, and following your deark example I did:

$ deark /path/Painleve_Acera-or-the-Witches-Dance_053
Module: pict
Format: PICT v2
Writing output.000.qtif
$ deark ...

Thanks Jason! I also got some weird color shifts when converting to TIFF. I also tried GraphicsMagick convert and got the same result, but inverted (R->G->B). Interesting, but not what I was after.

I will check out your utility!

Whew. OK, thanks for taking the time to dive in to this! Yes, Mac preview can view the files but we're interested in converting them to a better format for preservation, and this has been a wild ride.

All of what you said makes sense, and there are some additional elements I read about, plus some ...

Thanks! Here is a sample image: https://bit.ly/2EDWI2l

IM version: Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-16 Q16 x86_64

OS: Mac OSX 10.11.6

I was asking around and someone else said they thought it could be Kodak PhotoCD format rather than PICT, though every tool says PICT. I see in `exiftool -v` and also ...

:-? Hi, I'm having some trouble converting PICT images (created circa 1997) into TIFF or really any other format.

Running magick convert input.pict output.tif results in a black file that I can see in a hex editor is a valid TIFF file (Intel magic number) with several MB of 00000000 bytes.

Again ...