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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Word on MAC and PC
Keywords: Word, MAC, RTF
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.185114.3675@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 91 18:51:14 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.054941.8038@berlioz.nsc.com> my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip) writes:
>
>PS: How can people transfer MS Word documents with PICTURES/DRAWINGS
>    between the MAC and PC?

You can't, really, although MS told us at a recent educational reps meeting
that they're working on it.  The main problem is that the Mac likes the PICT
format, while Windows prefers WMF for non-bitmap stuff.  Although EPS, TIFF,
and such would be easier to translate, the PICT and WMF formats are *very*
environment-specific.  PICT is a bunch of Quickdraw, WMF is a bunch of GDI
calls.

Aaron Wallace