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From: hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperPaint 2.0
Keywords: Word 4.0 vs. PICTs
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Date: 28 Sep 89 21:19:36 GMT
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In article <115028@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>Don't even think of taking a SuperPaint drawing
>from  Word 4.0 back to SuperPaint to change it.

<<description of troubles delete>>

>I wish the problems could be solved, but so far I haven't really complained
>to anyone either. Where would you start - Microsoft or Silicon Beach (or
>both)?

I suspect that this is a problem with Word, not SuperPaint 2.0.  The
Expressionist program has similar trouble.  Expressionist creates
equations as PICTs with embedded comments describing the structure of
the equation.  It needs the information in the comments to reconstruct
an equation that's been pasted into Expressionist for editing.  PICTs
that have been pasted from Word into Expressionist are so badly mangled
that Expressionist chokes on the result.  I wouldn't be surprised if
Word is trashing SuperPaint pictures as well.

Hal Perkins                    hal@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS