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From: lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
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Subject: Re: EPSF pics leaving tails...
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Date: 3 Mar 89 23:03:34 GMT
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[I tried to mail, but it bounced on me due to the idiocy of some
Stanford computer...]
>
>All the drawings are of various polyhedra.  They are done to perfection in 
>Cricket Draw (all the lines connect where they should, and are perfect when
>printed in Cricket Draw form).  However, when transferred to RSG, many of them
>develop tails - small lines extending from some of the vertices.  I have tried
>resaving in EPSF and other similar quick-fixes, but nothing has worked.
>
>We are planning to publish our materials (high school geometry workbooks) and
>really need a perfect product.  I'm not real thrilled about the prospect of
>going through all our stuff with white-out.
>
>Anyone got any ideas?  Anyone else have similar problems?
>
>FYI, Mac II with 2 meg, System 6.0.2, Cricket Draw 1.1.1, RSG 4.0a.
>
>Thanks!
>       Annie Fetter           |      annie@cs.swarthmore.edu    |    
>VGP-Department of Mathematics |      fetter@swarthmr.bitnet     |  For Office

Try going back in Cricket Draw and Ungrouping all your objects.
If that doesn't work, save your file as PICT.  If that doesn't work,
then try using Aldus Freehand or Adobe Illustrator. 

Reasons: any picture will have problems printing if the objects are
grouped in any way at all.  Also, the Mac has pretensions of being a
truly WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) computer, but it really
isn't.  And it is hard to be WYSIWYG when your computer uses one
imaging language (QuickDraw) while you printer uses another
(PostScript).  Since a PICT file is more or less pure QuickDraw, it
can eliminate part of the translation problem and leave the translation
to the LaserWriter driver rather than to Cricket Draw.  Also,
Illustrator and Freehand probably have better algorithms for saving as
EPSF than Cricket Draw does.  Adobe created EPSF; Aldus is one of its
biggest supporters (PageMaker made EPSF the standard it is).

--- Alex
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