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From: fry@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Regions in PICT resources?
Keywords: MacDraw doesn't know what to do with 'em
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Date: 1 Sep 88 18:58:34 GMT
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When MacDraw saves a smoothed filled polygon, it includes the
interior as a filled region.  This, I think, is a clue that
regions in MacDraw should be treated as Polygons with the
appropriate PicComments to handle the spline.  Then MacDraw
will treat it as we would normally think of a region.  This is
enforced by the knowledge that the LaserWriter drivers will
not work with regions.

To confuse the issue, however, Apple now says its LaserWriter
drivers no longer handle polygon PicComments either, which I
find distressing.  I don't know what their work around is.
They (tech support, that is) say this is being looked at right
now.

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics		fry@harvma1.bitnet
Harvard University			...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138