MacPaint 1

Readable

image

MacPaint is the native format for the MacPaint application. Files of this type may lack an extension.

Identify it

Extensions	`.mac.pntg.pic`
MIME types	`image/x-macpaint`
Signatures	`00000002ffffffff` at byte 0 (MacPaint 1)
PRONOM	`x-fmt/161`
Wikidata	`Q28206528`
Apple UTI	`com.apple.macpaint-image`

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Open it

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Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
PNG	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.mac out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.mac out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mac out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mac out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mac out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.

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