QuickDraw Viewer now supports Digital Video encoded QuickTime embedded images.

#retrocomputing #classicmac #mac #quicktime #quickdraw #digitalvideo

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format.

A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows exporting to PDF format. - GitHub - wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files. It allows ex...

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@thias Any interest in a small collection of PICTs & MacPaint files that don’t open correctly with QuickDraw Viewer? This comes from my MARCHintosh / GlobalTalk guestbook.

Examples include:
- some PICT files that only render parts of the image (and out of order) in QuickDraw Viewer, but render fine in GraphicConverter
- one PICT file that asks for a “None” decompressor in QuickDraw Viewer, and renders a white screen in GraphicConverter and Preview (but renders correctly on an old Mac)
- a couple MacPaint files that QuickDraw Viewer just outright refuses to open, but render fine in GraphicConverter
- a couple PICT files that open but don’t display an image at all in QuickDraw Viewer (and look fine in GraphicConverter)

Grab’em from here: https://junk.scottsmall.org/quickdraw_bad_files.sit.hqx

@smallsco yes please!
@thias Let me know if this link doesn’t work: https://junk.scottsmall.org/quickdraw_bad_files.sit.hqx
@smallsco I could download the archive, and the files contain interesting edge-cases: QuickTime matrix transformation, weird QuickTime depth (63), thanks a lot. I won't be able to look into the issues before the end of the summer though…
@thias No worries - glad I could be of help!
@smallsco I added logic for handling the QuickTime matrix transform.
@thias Awesome, this looks great!