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From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with Tech Note #176 (SIMMs)
Keywords: funny file formats, MacDraw
Message-ID: <1100@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 88 16:51:28 GMT
References: <123@mtunj.ATT.COM> <2282@utah-gr.UUCP> <1987Dec10.101424.18952@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <2286X@utah-gr.UUCP>
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In article <2286X@utah-gr.UUCP> thomas%spline.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
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>You should be able to get someone who does have MacDraw to cut them to
>the clipboard and paste them into MacWrite.  I'd do it for you except
>that I'm pretty far away.

The problem (we have the same 'problem' with many of our MacDraw pictures 
here, too) is that the drawings are printed with LW 50% reduction.  Trying
to shrink these types of drawings to half size in MacWrite (or Word) has 
always produced less than optimal results -- mostly because the text doesn't
shrink with it.  Also, isn't there a limit on the size of PICT you can safely
paste?  These things are large, one of the TN176 drawings is 2400 objects, 
taking about 35% of memory (MD's estimate) on my 512KE (Sys 3.2).  

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