On Aug 13, 2008, at 8:10 PM, David Duncan wrote:
Yes, PICT is gone in 64-bit.
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Could you expand on why you need to do this?
I'll throw in my two cents worth...
As the OP alluded to, there are many apps with Carbon heritage that
still put PICT on the clipboard. For example, MS-Word only just
started supporting PDF in any meaningful way and I haven't looked, but
even the most recent version still probably uses PICT on the
clipboard. In the real world lots of people expect apps to maintain
cut/paste compatibility with Word. You don't get to skip that just
because your app is going to be 64 bit.
In addition, there are a lot of people out there who still have a
large library of images created prior to Mac OS X. Sometimes these
are in hard to find formats (anyone remember SuperPaint and
IntelliDraw?) but frequently they're in PICT. Those people still want
to be able to use those files. PICT was the standard graphic file
exchange format on the Mac for about twenty years. It seems rather
short slighted to completely drop support for it.
Nick
