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From: flank@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Brett Jacobson)
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Subject: Re: BAD NEWS FOR MAC -> NEXT PEOPLE
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Date: 1 Dec 90 01:33:09 GMT
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In article <1040@toaster.SFSU.EDU> hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) writes:
>companies, and by Frame Technologies, that there is NO support for graphics
>generated on the Macintosh as editable files for ANY application on the NeXT.
[alot of stuff about his horrible place in life removed]
>on a Macintosh are stuck there unless you are willing to import them as TIFF or
>EPS (uneditable) formats. That works just fine and has since the beginning.


If I may interject a little reality:

EPS is editable (by Adobe Illustrator), and is much more versitile than
PICT or anything else (short of NFF, IFF formats), since it allows you to
do ANYHING your printer or screen (in the case of the NeXT can do).  I am
sorry that you have chosen to use PICT for work, but don't blame NeXT
(or FrameMaker) becuase they do not support 100s of file types.  In my
humble opinion 2 or 3 are enough (NFF, TIFF and EPS) for any machine,
regardless of who makes it.

Chris Petrilli
(forwarded by Brett Jacobson)