.Net library for saving an image to Mac's PICT/PCT file format

Question

Does anyone know of a .Net library for saving or converting an image to the Mac PCT/PICT file format?

I can save a JPG to PCT/PICT format in Photoshop; and I see this LeadTools library for $995 dollars, but would like to spend less money than that for the simple convert. I don't need all the other features this costly library supports. http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Raster/Formats/Raster-Format-MACPICT.htm

A client claims that need JPG images saved in PIC/PICT file format for their SASI yearbook Mac software.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Other than writing your own exporter, you may be able to use ImageMagick's QuickDraw PICT support .

I have seen their API used successfully from P/Invoke and COM; there is an example on CodeProject I just found that uses it from VB.NET.

If it helps, here is the file format for PICT . PICT v1.0 is substantially out of date (I believe it was deprecated sometime in the 90s). Inside Macintosh also has some details on the PICT v2.0 format, and I seem to remember hearing something about JPEG encoding in PICT.

Answer 2

Try this http://www.imagemagick.org/

It is a C++ lib, but they have .NET wrapper ImageMagicNET