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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bounding Box info for MacDraw files
Summary: DrawOver does
Keywords: Bounding Box, MacDraw
Message-ID: <3992@adobe.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 01:38:36 GMT
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Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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 The Adobe Illustrator(tm) 88 package includes an application
called DrawOver(tm). This program converts PICT format files into
Adobe Illustrator format. I believe that any bitmaps which are
part of the PICT file are ignored but I haven't tried that myself.

The resulting Illustrator file is a pure PostScript(R) language file
which can be sent to a PostScript printer. There is one caveat: the
coordinate system used for an Illustrator 1.1 document (by default) is the
top left corner of the document (I think this was changed in the latest
release but you can check it when you select Rulers). Move the 
origin of coordinates to the lower left corner of the page so that it matches
the default coordinate system in the PostScript language. Again, I think
that the new version of Illustrator uses the lower left corner by default
so this may not be necessary.

One other point: Illustrator documents do not have a 'showpage' imbedded
within them. You need to add this to your file if you send it directly to
the printer with something like SendPS instead of using the Print
command in Illustrator.

Hope this is useful,

David Gelphman
Adobe Systems, Inc.