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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.153250.3683@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:32:50 GMT
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In article <5136@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>>In article <5116@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>>>ONLY if the application supports that format.. try dumping a MacDraw Circle,
>>>or some other Structured drawing item into a cheap word processor.  it won't
>>>work.
>>
>>Name that word processor.  I can't think of a Mac word processor that doesn't
>>support pasting in PICTS.  A text editor might have this limitation.
>
>A Structured drawing item from MacDraw or any other structured drawing program
>are NOT PICTS.  

Excuse me, but what exactly do you think a PICT is?  A bitmap?  PICT is an
Apple data format that consists of a series of opcodes, each with associated
data.  PICTS can be in files or can live solely on memory blocks.  PICT
supports structured drawing items (all of the standard Quickdraw shape
primitives), plus polygons, regions, bitmaps, clipping regions, color
specifications, font specifications, text, etc.  It is a very rich format,
the creation of which is completely supported by the OS in a sort of "tape
recorder" mode, and the play-back of which is a single simple call-
_DrawPicture.  A word-processor doesn't have to know anything at all about
the contents of the picture or how it was made, it only needs to request it
from the clipboard, get its total area from the header and draw it.  And
essentially _all_ applications support PICT in the clipboard, because Apple
has from Day One said that they must.