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From: baffico@adobe.COM (Tom Baffico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BAD NEWS FOR MAC -> NEXT PEOPLE
Keywords: document interchange, Mac and NeXT
Message-ID: <8818@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 90 00:54:58 GMT
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In article <1040@toaster.SFSU.EDU> hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU 
(John Hodges) writes:
>Hello NeXT-Land. Regarding my posting last night I have not-so-good news
>I just spoke with everyone at Adobe and MediaLogic regarding importing 
>editable graphics created on a Macintosh to the NeXT. I have been told, 
>by both of these
>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.

Wait, you forgot to speak to me... I would have told you that while there
may not be a general solution to all graphics interchange, you will be 
able to exchange graphics between a Mac and a NeXT using Adobe Illustrator
as a common file format. Illustrator on the Mac and Illustrator on the NeXT
will be able to interchange files, no problem. Any work you do with Adobe
Illustrator on the Macintosh will not be lost if you then choose to move to 
a NeXT. And this interchange is not limited to work done with Adobe 
Illustrator, many applications on the Mac and the PC such as Aldus FreeHand, 
MicroGrafx Designer and Corel Draw are able to parse Illustrator based 
graphic files.

For scanned images TIFF files are an accepted file interchange standard for
editable sampled image data and NeXT is providing better support for TIFF 
in its system than the support you will find in Macs or PCs.
(or any other platform that I know of.)

>Those of you reading from Redwood City, PLEASE decide on a 
>graphic interchange standard NOW.

A graphic interchange standard is a great idea, and we do need an industry
champion to bring it about, but to be successful an interchange standard
will need the backing of more than one company.

>Jack Hodges,
>San Francisco State University

Tom Baffico
Adobe Systems