Sure. The application I'm writing is an image editor. Although it's
a nice-to-have, not being able to read and write PICT files isn't a
particularly big deal. However, certain applications (including
Photoshop) put PICT data on the pasteboard without also making a
TIFF representation available. Without PICT image I/O, this means
that it's impossible to paste an image copied out of Photoshop into
my program.
The ideal would be for such apps to be revised to put PDF or a
standard bitmapped image format on the clipboard, especially since
this can be done in addition to the PICT and promises can be used to
avoid having to have all the data available at the time of the
posting. That said, we live in the real world and it would be nice for
the OS to assist you when dealing with applications that haven't been
updated to do this, so if you have feedback on how this can be
improved feel free to file a bug report (although I'm fairly certain
it will be returned as a duplicate).
At this point your best option would probably be to spawn a 32-bit
helper app that can translate from PICT to some other image format for
you, possibly even pass it back via a named pasteboard (aside from the
standard clipboard).
--
David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing
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