Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MacDraw file format Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 20:27:40 GMT References: <1991Jun18.235940.10598@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Jun19.021340.11947@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU's message of 19 Jun 91 02: 13:40 GMT In article <1991Jun19.021340.11947@neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes: >jenlan@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jennifer S Lanham) writes: >>Is the file format for MacDraw publicly available? >>If so, where might I get it? >You don't want it. The format is tightly bound to the internal representation >of the various MacDraw objects -- not a pretty sight. Wait a minute. I thought MacDraw format was just PICT with some comments to act as brackets defining grouped objects. Or is that just the old format? Granted, PICT is not too pretty to look at, but you don't have to; you just get your Mac to deal with it. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Should five percent appear too small, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | Be thankful I don't take it all. "Taxman" | \============================================================================/