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From: gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh)
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Subject: Re: Exporting Wingz graphics
Summary: Turn off background colors
Keywords: wingz, cut and paste
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Date: 21 Jul 89 14:03:37 GMT
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In article <14499@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu 
(Chang P. Woo) writes:
>Here is seemingly a common situation that I don't know how to solve:
>
> [Wingz charts come out as dark "smudges" when pasted into other
> applications and displayed or printed.]
>

The following comes from some experimentation with the demo version of
Wingz, but there's no particular reason to think that it's any
different in the full-up one:

Wingz charts are produced, by default, with the background of the
chart area colored. It's colored white, but that is treated as a color
nonetheless. Many monochrome applications and printers will display
colors as black. I duplicated the problem noted with pastes and prints
of a Wingz chart in Macwrite II and SuperPaint 2.0.

The solution is to select the chart and then go to the Graph menu,
General submenu, Plot Interior Brush item. In the resulting dialog,
select the no-fill pattern (the "N" block). If you want to be
absolutely sure of no problems, you can do the same in the Fill item
in the Format menu, which applies to the rectangular surround of the
chart, but this doesn't seem necessary. The Interior Brush item is the
crucial one. After taking this action, Wingz charts pasted and printed
OK into MacWrite II, Word, Power Point, and Super Paint.

The experiments showed a more serious problem. Wingz graphic items of
any kind wouldn't paste at all into MacDraw II (v1.1). No matter what
was selected, MacDraw would complain that the objects in the clipboard
would not fit within the drawing area, even when this was clearly not
the case. Viewing the clipboard in MacDraw II showed the graphic item
from Wingz just as one would expect it to look, but it wouldn't paste.

Is this a problem in the full-up Wingz as well??

					- John Gersh


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