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From: heddle@clas01.cebaf.gov (David Heddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: PICTs and PICT Files
Keywords: PICT
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.193611.17375@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 91 19:36:11 GMT
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Reply-To: heddle@clas01.cebaf.gov (David Heddle)
Organization: CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility)
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Dear Friends:

Some basic questions about PICTs & PICT files:

1) How does one rotate a PICT consisting of text? I know
how to rotate the bitmap of the text, and then how to
save the rotated bitmap as a PICT, but of course all
the information about the text is lost. There most be some
reversible way of rotating the text (or any PICT, for that matter)
so that the underlying components are preserved.

2) How does one group PICT components a la MacDraw and then store that
grouping info? Originally I assumed that grouping was application
specific -- e.g. how they connect their internal object lists --
but I discovered that some of my clip-art, stored as PICT files,
has retained grouping information which is apparent when you use MacDraw
to open the file. Somehow the grouping of components was
preserved and embedded in the PICT file. I find no help in IM I-V.

3) Is there a way to insert a page-break between PICTs in a PICT file?

cheers,

dph

CEBAF = Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
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