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From: doelz%urz.unibas.ch@RELAY.CS.NET (Reinhard Doelz)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.pc
Subject: Re:Drawing on the Macintosh
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Date: 23 Aug 88 06:01:00 GMT
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... Drawing Plasmids on the Mac, reply to Mats:

I recommend to use an obect- oriented drawing program like MacDraw or 
Cricket Draw. Some of us regularly try to use SuperPaint because
it is supported by the local computer center at the university. In 
object mode, that's fine as well. 

A possibility I am using if I want to produce nice graphics is that 
one may write the GCG package's output into a Draw compatible file
if you use Versaterm Pro as a terminal emulator. (I'm lucky enough to 
have a 5 megs color Mac II and you even get the color across). It is important 
to select a sufficient enlargement factor in Versaterm in order not to 
loose graphics quality in the Tek4105 rasterizer. A real shame is that you 
have to be patient in reprocessing the files, because *any* small object 
(even letters) are split up into numerous objects. But it works, e.g. if 
you want to show an entire plasmidmap enlagred, you may easily combine 
graphics, recombine them, modify them etc.
Unfortunally, the "normal" SE takes ages (if it's capable at all) processing
the Versaterm graphics. Therefore, I cannot recommend this method for other
than the Mac II. 

One problem is that I don't have a program
for retranslating postscript into a processable Macintosh file. It were
really easy to create some kind of template in Postscript!

Reinhard 

P.S.:
SuperPaint, CricketDraw, MacDraw and VersatermPro are commercial programs.
  

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