Importing mac .pict files?

Hi All,
I am moving a bunch of old mac .pict files to my vista machine using LR2. At least i'd like to. I see no documentation about .pict files and think I am out of luck.
Has anyone dealt with this before and is there an elegant or easy solution?
thanks in advance.

LR only supports raw files, psd, tiff or jpeg for still images.
Has anyone dealt with this before and is there an elegant or easy solution?
Convert them to a more standard format such as tiff. It is trivial to write a little automator action on your mac that will do that in one swoop.

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