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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacDraw file format
Message-ID: <13089@claris.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 13:45:20 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.235940.10598@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Jun19.021340.11947@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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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.

>What you DO want is the Claris XTND documentation, which IS a standard
>interchange format that all Claris products support.  As you might expect,
>the graphical format handles MacDraw pretty well.

>Contact Claris for info.

Almost right, Mark.  Right now the dust is settling and XTND will be shipped
by _Apple_ from APDA within a few weeks.  As was announced at the recent
Apple WorldWide Developer's Conference, Apple is working on a new Translator
Manager for the toolbox and they have promised that it would be backward
compatible with XTND 1.3 (the version that has just been completed and which
APDA will be shipping).

By the way, it is not just Claris products which support XTND.  Word Perfect
2.0, RagTime, and Nisus (among a long list of others) support XTND, although
the US version of Nisus supporting XTND has not yet shipped.

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