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From: dgold@Apple.COM (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Brief description of Ashton-Tate presentation on Fullwrite
Message-ID: <305@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:34:16 GMT
References: <6280@fluke.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <6280@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>... More importantly, I ended up correcting the
>A-T represenatives about FullWrite during the Q&A session, when one of them
>claimed that TIFF and EPS graphics could be inserted into sidebars.  I
>pointed out that EPS images could be used with the "background" option in
>printing, but that they could not be inserted into sidebars or picture
>elements.

This is true, but I should point out that for some time we have been
encouraging application developers to embed PostScript inside PICTs, which
are a data format almost every program understands.  We put out a tech note
on how to do it (Position-Independent PostScript, #183), and some applications
already generate such pictures (Adobe Illustrator is an example).  A
coworker of mine successfully used both PostScript and TIFF images in
FullWrite by putting them through Illustrator.  If more apps generated
PICTs directly, the intermediate step wouldn't be necessary.
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