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== Sample files == | == Sample files == | ||
Latest revision as of 02:16, 12 May 2026
- 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 was acquired by SPC, and renamed PFS:First Publisher.
SPC also licensed PFS:First Publisher to Logitech, who released it as Logitech Publisher, mainly as part of a package that included a mouse.
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.
[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. |
| 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:
- ClickArt Personal Publisher (at WinWorld)
- PFS:First Publisher (at WinWorld)
- PFS:First Publisher v1.00: [1] → FPDISK*.ZIP (other FP*.ZIP files may be related)
- PFS:First Publisher v2.00: [2] → 1STPUB-*.ARC
- Logitech Publisher v1.0 @ archive.org
- Easy Working Desktop Publisher (at WinWorld)
- Snapshot/Snap2Art - A screen capture utility usually included with the software (write-only)
Other software (Most third-party software likely only supports the standard resolution format.)
- ImageMagick
- Image Alchemy
- ART2WP - A conversion utility for DOS, by William J. Hinkle
- v2.1: art2wp21.zip
- v2.2, Spinnaker licensed: [3]
- ARTCON v1.4 - A conversion utility for DOS, by Robert Onda
- Tom's Viewer
- abydos
- Deark
- OPTIKS
[edit] Sample files
- 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)
- dexvert samples — image/pfsFirstPublisher
- [4] → *.art (champgn.art and computer.art are hi-res)
- Examples whose coordinates are not (0, 0): PORSCHE.ART, FLOWER.ART
