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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DeskWriter Questions
Message-ID: <2555.26b00f9f@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 27 Jul 90 09:55:43 GMT
References: <532@al.ele.tue.nl> <27484@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <27484@netnews.upenn.edu>, news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System) writes:

> 
> For example I want to edit Wingz graphics in Macdraw II, but the 
> clipboard will only transfer a PICT (72dpi) image.  I create the graphic
                                      ****** WRONG
> at 400% scale, copy/paste, edit, and finally print at 25%.
> 

> 
> George Jefferson    jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu

George, you're way off here.

PICT images are not ANY resolution: they are object drawings, so that if 
you print to a laserwriter or any printer, the image will come out as clear 
as that printer will allow (laser, DW: 300dpi; Imagewriter: 72dpi; 
imagesetter: 1000dpi+).

The particular program you are using may have this 400%, 25% problem (like 
Versaterm Pro), but PICT images do not fall in this category.

The 72dpi images you are thinking of are MPNT or MacPaint images; but I 
don't think that WingZ produces these.-- 
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Phil Ryan                                         
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
Canberra, Australia                               
pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741