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From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BAD NEWS FOR MAC -> NEXT PEOPLE
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Date: 5 Dec 90 14:10:44 GMT
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In article <351@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
   In article <SCOTT.90Dec1135317@next-5.gac.edu> scott@next-5.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
   >But, you might add, TIFF was specifically designed to be used as an
   >independant interchange format.  Tag Image File Format, and from the
   >specification memorandum:

   TIFF is useless as a general-purpose interchange format, because it
   only handles image data (bitmaps and halftones).  It does not support
   text, line art, or anything else.

From the way it sounds here on the net, PICT barely supports it in a
readable format :-).

   Besides, TIFF originated on the Mac, so it's a little silly to claim
   that NeXT has this standard that the Mac doesn't have.

Who's claiming that?  _I'm_ claiming that it's a standard on _both_,
so, can be used (albeit primitively) to exchange graphics between
machines.

   The real issue is a file format that allows graphics, text, images, and
   so forth to be stored without any significant limitations, yet still
   be editable (which means that any application should be able to open
   the file and read the data into its own data structures).  The closest
   thing I've seen so far to this is the Illustrator file format, which is
   supported by several applications on the Mac. There are, of course, other
   standards, like GKS and PHIGS and stuff like that, but these are not
   useful for Mac/NeXT portability, and besides, they have their limitations.

Yes, that is the real problem.
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scott hess
scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	(Stuart)
GAC Undergrad			(Horrid.  Simply Horrid.  I mean the work!)
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