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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help reading MacDraft documents
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Date: 11 Mar 89 09:24:42 GMT
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In article <1478@petsd.UUCP> jac@petsd.UUCP (Jim Clausing) writes:
>I need some help.  I have a disk with MacDraft documents that I need to
>convert to some format that can be read by another program. [...]

I used to work at IDD, the company that wrote MacDraft.  The only two programs
in existence that read MacDraft files are MacDraft and the MacDraft to Dreams
translation program that comes with the Dreams CAD program.  The translator
wouldn't help you at all since it just translates to another proprietary file
format.

What you have to do is to ask whoever gave you these files to resave them in
PICT format.  Or find someone who has MacDraft and get them to resave the
files for you.  If you get really desperate, I suppose you could mail the files
to me and I could translate them for you.  I'm sure you should be able to find
someone with MacDraft though.

No flames about proprietary formats please.  I had nothing to do with it and
I believe both the MacDraft and Dreams file formats are available on request.
Trust me, unless you're a developer, you don't want to read these
formats.  I know, I've seen the code.  :-)

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