MacPaint
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 Bitmap image editing program |
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| developer | Bill Atkinson ( Apple ), Claris |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| Current version | 2.0 (January 24, 1988) |
| operating system | Mac OS |
| programming language | Assembly language |
| category | image editing |
| License | Proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.apple.de | |
MacPaint was a bitmap-oriented image processing program that was delivered on the first Macintosh by Apple together with MacWrite in 1984 and was on the market in various improved versions until 2004. MacPaint pioneered many other similarly working programs such as PixelPaint and Photoshop , which was first available on the Macintosh IIfx around 1990 .
Thanks to the graphical user interface, images created with MacPaint could easily be inserted into MacWrite documents and also printed. Since the first Macintosh only had a black and white screen, MacPaint could only edit black and white images ( resolution only 576 × 720 pixels ). But that was not a restriction, because the ImageWriter that was connectable at the time could only print black and white images of the size 203 × 204 mm with 72 DPI .
MacPaint image files can be converted into PBM files with the command line tool macptopbm (part of the Netpbm project) ; this format can be further processed with today's programs.
In 2010 Apple published the MacPaint 1.3 source code , consisting of assembler and Pascal code, via the Computer History Museum , and a historical version of the QuickDraw source code was also available.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Netpbm homepage
- ↑ MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code . In: Computer History Museum . July 20, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ Erik Hesseldahl: Apple Donates MacPaint Source Code To Computer History Museum . businessweek.com. July 20, 2010. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved on August 23, 2014.