ART (PFS: First Publisher) - Revision history

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 ! Offset !! Length !! Field name !! Details
 |-
-|0 || 2 || left_edge || Almost always 0. An exception is the FLOWER.ART file included with the software.
+|0 || 2 || left_edge || Almost always 0.
 |-
 |2 || 2 || right_edge || Width = right_edge minus left_edge.
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 * {{DexvertSamples|image/pfsFirstPublisher}}
 * [{{DiscMasterURL|browse/35431/Select%20Demos%20from%20Computer%20Library%20-%201991%20-%20Premiere%20Issue.BIN/pc/sof10000/trial}}] → *.art (champgn.art and computer.art are hi-res)
 == Links ==
 * [[Wikipedia: Software Publishing Corporation]]
 [[Category:Software Publishing Corporation]]
 [[Category:Spinnaker]]

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 == Discussion ==
-The earliest confirmed use of ART format is by ''ClickArt Personal Publisher'', by T/Maker Company. ClickArt Personal Publisher is the predecessor of PFS:First Publisher.
+The earliest confirmed use of ART format is by ''ClickArt Personal Publisher'', by T/Maker Company. ClickArt Personal Publisher was acquired by SPC, and renamed ''PFS:First Publisher''.
-SPC sold its "PFS" family of software to Spinnaker. One of the successors to PFS:First Publisher is Spinnaker's ''Easy Working Desktop Publisher'', a DOS application that uses ART format.
+SPC later sold its "PFS" family of software to Spinnaker. One of the successors to PFS:First Publisher is Spinnaker's ''Easy Working Desktop Publisher'', a DOS application that uses ART format.
 Spinnaker also developed Windows versions of PFS:First Publisher and PFS:Publisher, but they probably don't use ART as a native format. PFS:Publisher includes a licensed version of ART2WP, to convert from ART to other formats.
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 |0 || 2 || marker || Always 0xffff.
 |-
-|2 || 2 || || X-DPI, usually 300.
+|2 || 2 || x-DPI || Usually 300.
 |-
-|4 || 2 || || Y-DPI, usually 300.
+|4 || 2 || y-DPI || Usually 300.
 |-
 |6 || 2 || width ||
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 * {{CdTextfilesURL|swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/}} → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)
 * {{DexvertSamples|image/pfsFirstPublisher}}
 == Links ==

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 Official software:
 * [https://winworldpc.com/product/clickart-personal-publisher/1x ClickArt Personal Publisher (at WinWorld)]
-* [https://winworldpc.com/product/first-publisher/30 PFS First Publisher (at WinWorld)]
+* [https://winworldpc.com/product/first-publisher/30 PFS:First Publisher (at WinWorld)]
 * [https://winworldpc.com/product/easy-working-desktop-publisher/10 Easy Working Desktop Publisher (at WinWorld)]
 * Snapshot/Snap2Art - A screen capture utility usually included with the software (write-only)

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 == Software ==
-(Most third-party software likely only supports the uncompressed format.)
+Official software:
-* [https://winworldpc.com/product/first-publisher/20 PFS First Publisher (at WinWorld)]
+Other software (Most third-party software likely only supports the standard resolution format.)
 * [[ImageMagick]]
 * [[Tom's Viewer]]
 * [http://snisurset.net/code/abydos/ abydos]
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 == Links ==
 * [[Wikipedia: Software Publishing Corporation]]

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 |subcat=Graphics
 |extensions={{ext|art}}
-|released=≤1988
+|wikidata={{wikidata|Q28205717}}
 }}
 :''See [[ART]] for other formats with that name.''
-'''ART''' is a bi-level raster image format used for clip art. It is associated with ''PFS: First Publisher'', a desktop publishing application for DOS developed by Software Publishing Corporation.
+'''ART''' is a bi-level raster image format used for clip art. It is most notably associated with the DOS versions of ''PFS:First Publisher'', a desktop publishing application by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC).
-There is a well-known "standard resolution" ART format, and a rarer "high resolution" format used by most of the ART files included with v3.0.
+There is a well-known "standard resolution" ART format, and a rarer "high resolution" format used by most of the ART files included with PFS:First Publisher v3.0.
 == Format details ==
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 |0 || 2 || marker || Always 0xffff.
 |-
-|2 || 2 || || X-DPI? Observed to be 300.
+|2 || 2 || || X-DPI, usually 300.
 |-
-|4 || 2 || || Y-DPI? Observed to be 300.
+|4 || 2 || || Y-DPI, usually 300.
 |-
 |6 || 2 || width ||

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 |subcat=Graphics
 |extensions={{ext|art}}
 }}
 :''See [[ART]] for other formats with that name.''
-'''PFS: 1st Publisher Clip Art Format''' ('''ART''') is an uncompressed bi-level image file format.
+'''ART''' is a bi-level raster image format used for clip art. It is associated with ''PFS: First Publisher'', a desktop publishing application for DOS developed by Software Publishing Corporation.
 == Format details ==
-''[Partial decoding, based on open source software, and analysis of ART files.]''
+''[Information here was derived from various unofficial sources. It was written for the fileformats.archiveteam.org wiki.]''
-Multi-byte integers are little-endian.
+=== Standard resolution format ===
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Offset !! Length !! Field !! Details
+! Offset !! Length !! Field name !! Details
 |-
-|0 || 2 || || Unknown. Observed to be 0.
+|0 || 2 || left_edge || Almost always 0. An exception is the FLOWER.ART file included with the software.
 |-
-|2 || 2 || width || Image width in pixels
+|2 || 2 || right_edge || Width = right_edge minus left_edge.
 |-
-|4 || 2 || || Unknown. Observed to be 0.
+|4 || 2 || top_edge || Almost always 0.
 |-
-|6 || 2 || height || Image height in pixels
+|6 || 2 || bottom_edge || Height = bottom_edge minus top_edge.
 |-
-|8 || || image_data || Pixels are in left-to-right, top-to-bottom order. 8 pixels per byte, most significant bit first, black is 0. Rows are padded to the next 2-byte boundary.
+|8 || || image_data || Uncompressed, with rows padded to the next 2-byte boundary.
 |}
 == Software ==
 * [[ImageMagick]]
 * [[Tom's Viewer]]
 * [http://snisurset.net/code/abydos/ abydos]
 == Sample files ==
-* http://cd.textfiles.com/fantaziasampler/CLIPART/ART/
+* {{CdTextfilesURL|fantaziasampler/CLIPART/ART/}}
-* http://cd.textfiles.com/swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/ → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)
+* {{CdTextfilesURL|swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/}} → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)
 * {{DexvertSamples|image/pfsFirstPublisher}}

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 * http://cd.textfiles.com/fantaziasampler/CLIPART/ART/
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/ → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/art/
+* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/pfsFirstPublisher/

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	* http://cd.textfiles.com/fantaziasampler/CLIPART/ART/		* http://cd.textfiles.com/fantaziasampler/CLIPART/ART/
	* http://cd.textfiles.com/swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/ → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)		* http://cd.textfiles.com/swinnund/disk3/CLIPART/ → 1STPUB3.EXE, ARTFILE?.EXE, ART_FPUB.EXE ([[Self-extracting ZIP]] format)
		+	* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/art/