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From: weber@brand.UUCP (Allan G. Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw file format?
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 21:14:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 21:14:47 1987
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> Does anyone have a document that describes the MacDraw file format?
> Or better yet some C code that would parse the MacDraw file format!
> 

I have just what you need.  Sometime back I wrote a program called
"drawimp" that translates a MacDraw picture saved in MacDraw format
into Impress commands for printing on an Imagen laser printer.  In the
process of writing the program I had to decipher much of the MacDraw
internal file format.  I can send you (or post) a file with my notes
on the file format, or if there is enough interest, I can do the same
with the whole drawimp program.  We use the program quite a bit here
for changing MacDraw pictures into Impress so they can be merged with
the output of TeX and LaTeX documents to eliminate cutting and pasting
of pictures.  It's not too elegant or sophisticated, but it works.

				Allan Weber
				USC Signal & Image Processing Inst.
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