GrayPaint - Revision history

Jsummers: /* Identification */

2018-02-22T15:25:34Z

‎Identification

Jsummers at 14:24, 18 September 2017

2017-09-18T14:24:10Z

Jsummers: Category:Palm OS Database

2017-09-06T16:45:57Z

Category:Palm OS Database

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics }} '''GrayPaint''' is, we have to tell you, an exceedingly difficult format to Google for (or search for in any other sear..."

2016-05-08T17:54:31Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics }} '''GrayPaint''' is, we have to tell you, an exceedingly difficult format to Google for (or search for in any other sear..."

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{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Graphics
}}
'''GrayPaint''' is, we have to tell you, an exceedingly difficult format to Google for (or search for in any other search engine competing with Google®). You end up with listings (native and paid) for various physical paint companies advertising the gray-scaled varieties of their products, and attempts to refine the search eventually get you to treatises on doing gray-scaled images in various computerized paint programs, as well as a [http://www.wincodebits.in/2015/07/visual-basic-graypaint.html?189db0 conversion program in Visual Basic] that happens to be called "Graypaint", but only converts established image file formats rather than inventing its own.

However, some more intense sleuthing does eventually disclose that there ''was'' an actual distinct program called GrayPaint with its own image format. It's for PalmOS devices, and the format (a grayscale raster graphic format) is a variety of the [[PalmOS Database]] (PDB) format, as are most things in PalmOS. A little bit of online documentation can be found on it, as well as mention of various graphic programs that claim to be able to load or convert this format.

== Links ==
* [http://www.questions.cz/download/GrayPaint2.txt GrayPaint 2.2.3 documentation in plain text]
* [https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/key-features/import-and-export-formats/ Lemke GraphicConverter 9] claims to be able to import this format.

[[Category:Palm]]

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 == Identification ==
-Based on the demo GrayPaintDB.pdb file, we're assuming that GrayPaint PDB files have ASCII "{{magic|DATAGrP?}}" at offset 60.
+Based on the demo GrayPaintDB.pdb file, we're assuming that GrayPaint PDB files have ASCII "{{magic|DATAGrP?}}" at offset 60. (The last character is a literal question mark, not a wildcard.)
 == Links ==

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-'''GrayPaint''' is, we have to tell you, an exceedingly difficult format to Google for (or search for in any other search engine competing with Google&reg;). You end up with listings (native and paid) for various physical paint companies advertising the gray-scaled varieties of their products, and attempts to refine the search eventually get you to treatises on doing gray-scaled images in various computerized paint programs, as well as a [http://www.wincodebits.in/2015/07/visual-basic-graypaint.html?189db0 conversion program in Visual Basic] that happens to be called "Graypaint", but only converts established image file formats rather than inventing its own.
+'''GrayPaint''' (also spelled '''Gray Paint''', '''GrayPaint?''', '''Graypaint''', etc.) is a raster graphics editor for Palm OS. Its native images are 16-shade grayscale, and may be found in a [[Palm OS Database]] file named GrayPaintDB.pdb.
-However, some more intense sleuthing does eventually disclose that there ''was'' an actual distinct program called GrayPaint with its own image format. It's for PalmOS devices, and the format (a grayscale raster graphic format) is a variety of the [[PalmOS Database]] (PDB) format, as are most things in PalmOS. A little bit of online documentation can be found on it, as well as mention of various graphic programs that claim to be able to load or convert this format.
+== Disambiguation ==
 == Links ==
 * [http://www.questions.cz/download/GrayPaint2.txt GrayPaint 2.2.3 documentation in plain text]
 * [https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/key-features/import-and-export-formats/ Lemke GraphicConverter 9] claims to be able to import this format.
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 [[Category:Palm]]
 [[Category:Palm OS Database]]