ART (PFS: First Publisher)

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File Format
Name ART (PFS: First Publisher)
Ontology
Extension(s) .art
Released ≤1988
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.

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.

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Format details

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

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.

High resolution format

Offset Length Field name Details
0 2 marker Always 0xffff.
2 2 X-DPI? Observed to be 300.
4 2 Y-DPI? Observed to be 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.

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(Most third-party software likely only supports the uncompressed format.)

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