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Opening Paint files in XL

Specifically, MacPaint files. Why MacPaint? 1. With a maximum size of 576 pixels wide by 720 pixels tall, MacPaint images fit on a modern spreadsheet when using cells as pixels, and 2. MacPaint prototyped the lossless PackBits compression algorithm, which is the default compression scheme for TIFF. PackBits is a signed-byte file structure with [...] Read More...

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Posted May 20 2011, 02:18 PM by Daily Dose of Excel
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