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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
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Subject: Re: Looking for clip art FTP sites...
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Date: 20 May 91 21:44:33 GMT
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In article <1991May18.054649.22039@ariel.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:

   "MACDRAW conversion does exist and his been living amongst the 
   hills"     

   Ok: 

    Back in 87, a guy by the name of Scott P. Everden, at 9 Courtland Street,
    Holliston, MA 01746 [I'm scrren flipping, Weeeee] created a program 
    called Mac-Paint Viewer (this converts .PIC files to IFF and IFF to .PIC 
    [though rather poorley]).

    Wayne Hogue, 847 Athol Street, Regina, Saskatchewan CANADA, S4T 3B6, 
    created a shareware viewer/conversion program that will convert:
    IFF-ILBM, IFF-ACBM, SPUT and SBOB (with and without header),
    DEGAS (Atari ST), NEO (Atari ST), and MACpaint pictures (.MAC) 

Neither of these descriptions mention MacDraw.  MacDraw is an
object-oriented drawing program, while MacPaint is a bitmap-based
paint program.  The two are not equivalent.  So neither of the
programs you mentioned will help the person who wanted object-based
clip art.

Does anyone know of a specification for MacDraw-format files, and a
pointer to an FTP site with some MacDraw files?  I'd be willing to
write a MacDraw-to-DR2D converter.


nj