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From: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacDraw file format
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.233641.27645@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 91 23:36:41 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.235940.10598@eos.arc.nasa.gov> 	<1991Jun19.021340.11947@neon.Stanford.EDU> <FRANCIS.91Jun19142740@arthur.uchicago.edu>
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francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>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?

MacDraw can certainly SAVE in PICT format, but that is NOT the format saved
in regular document files.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)