Re: [Sheflug] Read mackintosh jpg file under linux

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:54, John Southern wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 Dec 2005 23:55, Peter Collier wrote:
> > > Hi all, I've received 4 jpg files from an american firm who were
> > > doing a "shoot" at my firm. These files came from a mac computer
> > > and I can't view them. I've looked at macutils package, googled
> > > around for a couple of days but can't make sense as to what to
> > > do.
> >
snip.
>
> You can convert Apple Mac PICT/JPEG files with jpeg2ps or picttpppm
>
> In some cases it is a JFIF file but with the usual MacBinary header
> (Just take off the first 128 bytes to remove this).
>
> PICT is lossless but also has very poor compression.
>
> John

I've tried jpeg2ps but I end up with a 0 bytes file. Opening with kate 
the top line of the file says, This file must be opened with BinHex ver 
4.0. Running binhex on these files gives the message File is not a 
MacBinary. A bit of a contradiction?
The first 3 lines are:-

(This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0)

:$%P04e!e0$Fb,QT`C`"+8%9(!!!!!!!!!!,eT!!!!!#TaIrBrq(Xfd9iD [at] B!!%e

I'm not sure when you say to delet the first 128 bytes, what in the 
represents 128 bytes.

Peter C
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