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From: bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bitmap-only PICT resource
Message-ID: <9710006@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Oct 90 23:26:20 GMT
References: <504@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>
Organization: Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
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> I want to create a PICT resource for a splash screen and about... dialog
> which contains text as a bitmap.  I want to do this so it can be shown on
> any Mac, regardless of which fonts are installed.  
> 
> I've tried pasting a PICT image from SuperPaint, both directly and through
> the Scrapbook, but each time the text is stored as text with its font etc.
> 
> Please mail any replies to me as news items expire very quickly here.
> 
> Mike Strasser
> Psych Dept, Uni of Qld.

If you really want the bitmap of the text stored, you should be able to "Copy
to painting" from the draw layer. Everything in the paint layer is bitmaps.

Then Copy the paint stuff to the cli should work (untested).

Scott Bayes
"Don't panic. It's all just 1s and 0s"