Pictor Paint

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[edit] Pictor Paint

Pictor Paint was an improved version of PCPaint, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program. It was written by John Bridges, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges. It was also called "The Painter's Easel".

Pictor Paint saved its files in a compressed format with the file extension PIC , which was the same format used by PCPaint.

In 1994, GRASP development stopped and so did development of Pictor Paint. John Bridges terminated his GRASP publishing contract with Paul Mace Software, and went off to create GLPro (the next generation of GRASP) with Jason Gibbs at GMEDIA.

Along with GLPro, came GLPaint, the successor to PCPaint and Pictor Paint.

[edit] References

Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, 2nd Edition by Murray, James D. , Van Ryper, William ISBN: 1-56592-161-5 http://www.fileformat.info/resource/book/1565921615/index.htm

Pictor PC Paint File Format Summary http://www.fileformat.info/format/pictor/

GRASP File Format Summary http://www.fileformat.info/format/grasp/

GLPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLPro

Mouse Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Systems

PCPAINT/Pictor Page Format Description Format by John Bridges. Document by Microtex Industries, Inc. Revision Date: 2/9/88 http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/vendspec/pictor/pictor.txt

The Graphics File Formats Page GL - Another animation format Dr. Martin Reddy Technical Lead, R & D, Pixar Animation Studios http://www.martinreddy.net/gfx/2d/GL.txt

The formats of GRASP animation files By George Phillips http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/2157/Zipfilelist.aspx

The History of GLPRO by Jason Gibbs (G-media/IMS) GLPro Mailing List Archive http://www.concept-usa.us/glpro/glprolist/glprolist.asp?as_q=History+of+GLPRO&R2=V2&R1=V2&num=20&btnSub=Submit+Query

originally at http://www.gmedia.com/glpro/press/history.html

Pmace is still around http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=aftergrasp@googlegroups.com&q=pmace