Core_Computer Studies: PICT

PICT, which is an abbreviation for PICTure, and is found uniquely on Macintosh systems.

Unfortunately, this format is not engineered nearly as well as the PostScript-based EPS file format and PICTs frequently cause problems for professional printers. In other words they do like to handle files which have a PICT format graphic in a page-layout document.

However pict files are used in 3D packages as files you can use as textures and wrap on objects like a lable.

This file format is ideal to use in the Mac's Desktop Pattern control panel to change the desktop's background pattern or photo.

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