- Extension
- .paint
- .ubrl
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Other
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- APH (American Printing House for the Blind)
- Description
- The Mac Paint file, commonly associated with the file extension ".mac", originated from MacPaint, an early graphics editing program developed by Apple Inc. for the original Macintosh computer in 1984. This file type was designed to store black and white bitmap graphics, allowing users to create and manipulate digital images using a variety of tools and brushes. Mac Paint files were known for their simplicity and were widely used for basic graphic editing and illustration tasks during the early days of personal computing. Despite its historical significance, the Mac Paint format has largely been superseded by more advanced graphic file formats that support color and higher resolutions.
- Unicode Braille (uBrl) is a file format that stores information in the form of a braille code, which is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind or have low vision. The file format is used to store text in a way that can be read by a braille device or software.
- MIME Type
- image/x-macpaint
- application/vnd.braille
