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There are two 'PICT's common in the Mac World. (1) A PICT resource is a picture resource, stored in the resource fork of a file. The structure of a PICT resource, and of a resource fork, is available in Inside Mac. (2) A PICT document is a data fork based file of (o/s type) PICT. This is different from a PICT resource. There is a header on this file of 512 bytes, which can hold info, but frequently doesn't. Traditionally, MacPaint stored a palette in the header. So, I guess you're trying to look at #2 above; you remove the MacBinary header, and then the PICT header, and you get the data which is the bitmapped picture you're looking for. When this doesn't work, you are probably looking at #1 above, which is completely different. Bill S