Lotus 1-2-3 Chart

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'''Lotus 1-2-3 Chart''' (or '''Lotus PIC''') is a vector graphics format associated with [[Lotus 1-2-3]].
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'''Lotus 1-2-3 Chart''', or '''Lotus PIC''', is a vector graphics format associated with [[Lotus 1-2-3]].
  
== Format details ==
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== Identification ==
All known Lotus PIC files begin with (hex) bytes {{magic|01 00 00 00 01 00 08 00 44 00 00 00}}. The significance of these values is not known, but this is probably not an arbitrary signature, and other values may well be possible.
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Known Lotus PIC files begin with bytes {{magic|01 00 00 00 01 00 08 00 44 00 00 00 00 0c 7f 09 06}}. The significance of these byte values is not known, and other values might be possible.
  
''[Ed. note: The Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats and the Jim Kyle document listed below disagree about the next few bytes. E.g., EGFF says that 0x7F appears at offset 13, while the Kyle document says it's at offset 14.]''
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''[Ed. note: The Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats appears to have an error: It says there are three 0x00 bytes after the 0x44 byte, when there probably should be four.]''
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== Sample files ==
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* [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/datasets/ipres.ds.1/systems-showcase-files/collected/3D.PIC 3D.PIC], [https://www.webarchive.org.uk/datasets/ipres.ds.1/systems-showcase-files/collected/BAR10.PIC BAR10.PIC]
  
 
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Revision as of 17:19, 18 October 2019

File Format
Name Lotus 1-2-3 Chart
Ontology
Extension(s) .pic
PRONOM x-fmt/82
Released ~1983

Lotus 1-2-3 Chart, or Lotus PIC, is a vector graphics format associated with Lotus 1-2-3.

Identification

Known Lotus PIC files begin with bytes 01 00 00 00 01 00 08 00 44 00 00 00 00 0c 7f 09 06. The significance of these byte values is not known, and other values might be possible.

[Ed. note: The Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats appears to have an error: It says there are three 0x00 bytes after the 0x44 byte, when there probably should be four.]

Sample files

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