{"id":15788,"date":"2009-04-07T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/do-you-use-pict.html"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:15:19","slug":"do_you_use_pict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/07\/do_you_use_pict\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you use PICT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you read\/write the old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PICT\">PICT file format<\/a> in Photoshop?  We&#8217;re not aware of current workflows that have any dependency on the format, but if you have one, please speak up ASAP.<br \/>\nAs we move Photoshop forward, we need to keep pruning dead branches off the tree (rather than spend time rewriting them for Cocoa, 64-bit, etc.).  We&#8217;d like to drop PICT support unless there&#8217;s a good reason to keep it around.<br \/>\n[Update: Thanks for the quick &amp; copious feedback.  I got a kick out of reader Gordon Williams&#8217;s suggestion that the Photoshop team <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/gordophoto\/OnNotice?feat=directlink#5322389663651880402\">put old features &#8220;On Notice,<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listafterlist.com\/tabid\/57\/listid\/7317\/TV\/Stephen+Colberts+ON+NOTICE+List.aspx\">Colbert-style<\/a>.]<br \/>\n[Update 2: Based on your feedback, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/05\/pict_support_in_ps.html\">the plan<\/a> is that in the future, Photoshop will keep reading, but will no longer write, PICT files.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you read\/write the old PICT file format in Photoshop? We&#8217;re not aware of current workflows that have any dependency on the format, but if you have one, please speak up ASAP. As we move Photoshop forward, we need to keep pruning dead branches off the tree (rather than spend time rewriting them for Cocoa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}