Pictor Paint
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Pictor Paint was an improved version of PCPaint
, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI
paint program. It was written by John Bridges
, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges. It was also called "The Painter's Easel".
Pictor Paint saved its files in a compressed format with the file extension PIC
, which was the same format used by PCPaint.
In 1994, GRASP development stopped and so did development of Pictor Paint. John Bridges terminated his GRASP publishing contract with Paul Mace Software, and went off to create GLPro
(the next generation of GRASP) with GMEDIA.
Along with GLPro, came GLPaint
, the successor to PCPaint and Pictor Paint.
PCPaint
PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late...
, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI
Gui
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paint program. It was written by John Bridges
John Bridges
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, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges. It was also called "The Painter's Easel".
Pictor Paint saved its files in a compressed format with the file extension PIC
PICtor PIC image format
PICtor is an image file format developed by John Bridges, the principal author of PCPaint, the first Paintbrush program for the PC. It was also the native file format for Pictor Paint and GRASP and became the first widely accepted DOS imaging standard.-Typical file format:The PICtor format is a...
, which was the same format used by PCPaint.
In 1994, GRASP development stopped and so did development of Pictor Paint. John Bridges terminated his GRASP publishing contract with Paul Mace Software, and went off to create GLPro
GLPro
GLPro is a multimedia authoring application for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. GLPro is a contraction of Graphics Language Professional, and was written by John Bridges. GLPro was originally a MS-DOS program released in 1995, written as successor to GRASP, also written by Bridges and marketed by...
(the next generation of GRASP) with GMEDIA.
Along with GLPro, came GLPaint
GLPaint
GLpaint was an improved version of PCPaint and Pictor Paint, and was the last in a series of paint programs that descended from the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . All three were written by John Bridges....
, the successor to PCPaint and Pictor Paint.