ART (PFS: First Publisher)

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* [https://winworldpc.com/product/clickart-personal-publisher/1x ClickArt Personal Publisher (at WinWorld)]
 
* [https://winworldpc.com/product/clickart-personal-publisher/1x ClickArt Personal Publisher (at WinWorld)]
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* [https://winworldpc.com/product/first-publisher/30 PFS First Publisher (at WinWorld)]
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* [https://winworldpc.com/product/first-publisher/30 PFS:First Publisher (at WinWorld)]
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* PFS:First Publisher v1.00: [{{DiscMasterURL|browse/29986/wbiz0020-0029/wbiz0024.tar/wbiz0024}}] → FPDISK*.ZIP (other FP*.ZIP files may be related)
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* PFS:First Publisher v2.00: [{{DiscMasterURL|browse/29984/wbiz0000-0009/wbiz0008.tar/wbiz0008}}] → 1STPUB-*.ARC
 
* [https://winworldpc.com/product/easy-working-desktop-publisher/10 Easy Working Desktop 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)
 
* Snapshot/Snap2Art - A screen capture utility usually included with the software (write-only)

Latest revision as of 20:00, 29 December 2025

File Format
Name ART (PFS: First Publisher)
Ontology
Extension(s) .art
Wikidata ID Q28205717
Released ≤1986
See ART for other formats with that name.

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 PFS:First Publisher v3.0.

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[edit] 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.

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.

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.

[edit] Format details

[Information here was derived from various unofficial sources. It was written for the fileformats.archiveteam.org wiki.]

[edit] Standard resolution format

Offset Length Field name Details
0 2 left_edge Almost always 0. An exception is the FLOWER.ART file included with the software.
2 2 right_edge Width = right_edge minus left_edge.
4 2 top_edge Almost always 0.
6 2 bottom_edge Height = bottom_edge minus top_edge.
8 image_data Uncompressed, with rows padded to the next 2-byte boundary.

[edit] High resolution format

Offset Length Field name Details
0 2 marker Always 0xffff.
2 2 X-DPI, usually 300.
4 2 Y-DPI, usually 300.
6 2 width
8 2 height
10 2 Unknown. Observed to be 0x0001.
12 image_data Each row is compressed independently with PackBits.

After decompression, each row ends with 0, 1, or 2 padding bytes. The number differs by file, with no obvious logic to it; but decoders must figure out the bytes per row somehow. One idea is to decompress the pixels to see how many bytes you get, then divide that by the height.

[edit] Software

Official software:

Other software (Most third-party software likely only supports the standard resolution format.)

[edit] Sample files

[edit] Links

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