PIC files?

[nashjc]

I've some graphs saved as PIC files. Any suggestions for viewing / printing them?
And thanks for getting this running -- allows at least some old material to be recovered.

JN

[taviso]

Do you have an example file I can look at?

I think PIC might be another name for CGM, which is what this version of 1-2-3 generates.

The only program I know of that can read and print them is wpunix, I'm not sure if that is very helpful! If you did want to try that, I think you would do this:

1. Install wpunix.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+F9,1,1 (or go to Graphics > Figure > Create)
3. Press 1 (filename), then enter /path/to/filename.pic.
4. Then you can press F7 to add the figure to a document.
5. Then you can view or print the file.

I've heard that uniconverter can handle them (you might need to rename it file.cgm), but I haven't verified that.

[kieranjol]

There are some example files here: https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/image/lotusChart/ and http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3_Chart
I tried your steps in wpunix and it did not seem to work:

Any PIC file that I try just has that 'fig' display and I don't see any graph data.

[kieranjol]

Also,

 uniconvertor BAR10.cgm  outoutout.png
ERROR  | Loader is not found for /tmp/magick-6817qyHgj0Dard9D
ERROR  | Input file format of "/tmp/magick-6817qyHgj0Dard9D" is unsupported.
STOP   | Translation is interrupted
For details see logs: /home/kieran/.config/uc2/uc2.log

[kieranjol]

I was able to print it out and I can see the graph now!