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From: benw@microsoft.UUCP (Ben WALDMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel 3.0 vs MacDraw II 1.1
Keywords: graph pasting incompatibility
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Date: 7 May 91 04:25:31 GMT
References: <1991May2.172853.22205@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991May2.172853.22205@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>
>  I've just unpacked my new copy of Excel 3.0, and set about testing
>out its new charting features.  I seem, though, to have an
>incompatibility when pasting from Excel 3.0 into MacDraw II.
>  I select the graph, use the Copy Picture command,  but when I try to
>paste it into MacDraw, all the text labels get scrunched up into a
>single line near the top of the y axis, and all the columns in my
>column chart disappear.

Well, since you can paste into every program BUT MacDraw, it seems to
be a MacDrawII bug, since MacDraw II parses PICTs (or so I would guess).

Anyway, I've just taken a look through the Excel source code, and can't 
understand why MacDraw would have any problems--we're just doing a MoveTo
and a DrawText.

If anyone at Claris is listening, you can give me a call at Microsoft,
and we can figure this out.

Ben Waldman
Excel Development Team
Microsoft
(206) 882-8080