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Signatures

External signatures File extension: pct
File extension: pict
File extension: pic
Internal signatures
Name Macintosh PICT Image 2.0 (colour images)
Description 512 byte header, 2-byte picture size, 8 bytes picture frame (rectangle), version operator (0011h); version number (02FFh); Version operator (0C00h). The PICT format can be written by a number of applications; as a result the 512 byte header either includes information about the particular software which created the file, or is all zeros. The version operator and version number information is constant across objects of this format.
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 522
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Value 001102FF0C00
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