Macintosh PICT Image 1.0

Writable

image

A graphics format native to Macintosh computers encapsulating the functionality of QuickDraw 1 which supports monochrome bitmaps up to 32k in size.

Identify it

Extensions	`.pict.pct.pic`
MIME types	`image/x-pictimage/pict`
Signatures	`1101` at byte 0 (File Formats Wiki) `001102ff0c00` at byte 0 (File Formats Wiki) `00ff` at byte 0 (File Formats Wiki) `44525747` at byte 0 (Macintosh PICT Image 1.0 v1) `000000000000` at byte 0 (Macintosh PICT Image 1.0 v2)
PRONOM	`fmt/341x-fmt/80`
Wikidata	`Q2044200`
Apple UTI	`com.apple.pict`

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Open it

ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
PhotoRecOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Q8295Open sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Adobe Illustratorwrites · proprietary license
Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.1reads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads and writes
Cobaltwrites
Corel Flow 2.0reads and writes
Corel Painter Essentials 3reads and writes
Corel Painter Essentials 4reads and writes
GraphPad InStatwrites
Gryphon Software Morphwrites
Hijaak Digital Photo Studioreads and writes
Kai's Photo SOAP SEwrites
Kid Pix Deluxe 4 Home Editionwrites
LightningPaintwrites
Matisse Lightreads and writes
PaintShop Photo Pro X3reads and writes
PaintShop Pro X4reads and writes
PhotoEdit2reads and writes
Poser 5reads and writes
Poser 6writes
PowerCADDreads and writes
Riptide Photo Studioreads and writes
Visio Standard 5.0reads and writes
ABViewerreads
ACD FotoCanvas Litereads
ACDSeereads · proprietary license
ACDSee 5reads
Acorn Image Editorreads
Adobe After Effectsreads · proprietary license
Adobe After Effects 5.0reads
Adobe After Effects 5.5reads
Adobe Captivatereads
Adobe Encorereads
Adobe FrameMaker 5.5reads

And 35 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pct out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pct out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pct out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pct out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pct out.webp` Lossy compression.

Versions and variants (1)

Macintosh PICT Image 2.0Unknown

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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