At the heart of the first Macs, its support for Regions was unique, and it could replay drawing instructions in a Picture, the basis of its PICT file format. Then came Mac OS X with Quartz.
PICT
Have you lost any precious files lately? Old movies of your kids when they were young, perhaps. Wouldn’t it be good to be able to recover them?
All about textClipping and pictClipping files: what they are, and how to access the data within them.
If you cannot retrieve a document in an extinct format, there is no point in archiving it in the first place.
Working with vector graphics is quite different from pixel-based or image formats.
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