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From: louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Color hardcopy
Keywords: macdraw II,powerpoint,gif,tek 4693
Message-ID: <61094@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 13 Nov 89 18:39:23 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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I would like to use our Tek 4693 thermal color printer to make
transparencies from MacDraw II and Powerpoint. I was looking
at going from PICT to GIF, transfer to the SGI workstation
(that is where the printer is), and print the GIF output.

When I save a MacDrawII file in PICT format, I lose the color
(I guess that was to be expected). Powerpoint does not seem
to have any way to output PICT, GIF, TIFF, etc.

If I save MacDrawII pictures to the scrapbook, they go in as
black and white. If I try to save Powerpoint pictures to
the scrapbook, I lose the REAL color (if metal look, comes
out as yellows, greens, etc)

I am using GIFFER 1.03 (this allows me to pull in the scrapbook)

Summary: I would like to take MacDraw II and Powerpoint pictures
	 to a Tek 4693 thermal printer (cheaply). I know Tek
	 has a postscript interpretter, but it is a little
	 expensive.


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Louis McDonald
The Aerospace Corporation
louis@aerospace.aero.org