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From: man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
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Subject: Re: Superpaint and Word - objects lose alignments
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Date: 14 Jan 91 17:35:08 GMT
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In article <18907@shlump.nac.dec.com>, long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
|> 
|>  THE PLAYERS: Superpaint 2.0 and Word 4.0
|> 
|>  THE SCENARIO: Create an object-oriented graphic in Superpaint. Paste it into
|>  Word. Cut the graphic from Word, paste it back into Superpaint. The object
|>  alignments are all screwed up!
|> 
|>  THE QUESTION: Whodunnit? How can it be fixed?

THE ANSWER: Apple.  I believe the problem you are encountering is that the 
clipboard format only supports alignment with a precision of 1/72 inch.  If
some of the items created in your Superpaint document are not aligned to a
1/72 inch grid, then copying to the clipboard forces to that grid, and when
you paste it in somewhere else, well, you get the idea.  I hope that one of the
improvements in System 7 is to allow cutting and pasting with an accuracy of
at least 1/300 inch.

	--Mark