"I was emailed something that was scanned that ends in .cpt. I'll be darned if I ever saw that extension before and don't know for the life of me how to open it or view it."
CPT file is a Corel Photo-Paint image. Corel Photo-Paint is not sold by itself, but instead included with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
How to open .cpt files quickly and effectively?
Although cpt format files isn't alway seen, but the similar problem is very common. What should we do to decompress the compressed files? We have to download a unzip tool to help us, such as StuffIt Expander for Mac, which can help you decompress more than 20 formats compression files.
Steps:
There are some ways for accessing .cpt file with StuffIt Expander for Mac. In the following part we will give the guides of how to open .cpt file with StuffIt Expander 2009 to you.
2. Launch StuffIt Expander 2009 for Mac with double-click.
3.Click and hold the icon of the file, and drag it over the icon of StuffIt Expander. When StuffIt Expander's icon darkens, release the mouse button. StuffIt Expander will open and decode the file, and then quit.
Other ways:
Double-click StuffIt Expander's icon, and wait for it to open. From the File menu, select Expand, and in the window that appears, find the file you want to decode. StuffIt Expander will then decode the file.
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