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From: roger@caen.engin.umich.edu (Roger Roberto Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Reading/Printing MacPaint files
Keywords: Lightspeed Pascal
Message-ID: <3e999f83.57d7@dl57d7.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 88 13:16:00 GMT
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Hello, there.

I'm just starting to program my Mac, and got really excited when I found out that Lightspeed Pascal (which
I own) could save its graphics window as a MacPaint file. But...I couldn't find anything to read in a 
MacPaint file.  I don't understand QuickDraw enough to see how I would read the file back in.

(I tried to read in the MacPaint file as a file of grafport, but I can't seem to display it. I had this
same problem trying to save graphics using Kyan Pascal's double-hires tools for the Apple ][ (which was
an scaled-down QuickDraw scheme))

Could someone send me a way to read in the file using Lightspeed Pascal? And is there an easy way to
print graphics from Pascal (aside from actually directly sending graphics control codes to the ImageWriter.
I haven't actually gotten the printer yet, but why not kill two birds with one stone...)?

Thanks!
 Roger Espinosa
 (you can try to reply by mail, but I can guarantee nothing.)