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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Pasting PICT's into MSWord
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.095426.1449@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 09:54:26 GMT
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gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:

>You have encountered a serious problem with MacDraw II.  My impression
>has always been that MacDraw II is written in an egocentric way -- it
>won't export PICT graphics with 300dpi precision.  This is problem
>because MacDraw II was written before 300dpi PICT graphics were
>possible. 
> [etc]
>Basically, MacDraw II does not create device-independent graphics for
>export.  The graphics it creates print differently on postscript and
>on PICT devices.  There are three solutions:
> [etc]

Would it be possible to write some sort of FKEY to get the precision-
independent info (and change it into a 300dpi PICT) directly from MacDrawII?


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