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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help reading MacDraft documents
Message-ID: <1108@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 14 Mar 89 00:19:41 GMT
References: <1478@petsd.UUCP> <3795@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: SUNY College @ Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <3795@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) writes:
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>What you have to do is to ask whoever gave you these files to resave them in
>PICT format.  

This works, but appears to have a side effect.  Awhile ago I took a regular
MacDraw file, opened it in MacDraw II, made a few small changes and 
saved it as PICT.  I then opened the PICT file in regular MacDraw again.
It worked fine, but it was incredibly SLOW - you could watch it individually 
draw each line segment.  This was a large file with well over 1000 objects,
and it became totally unusable due to its slow screen updates.  I tried
saving it as a MacDraw format file, but it was still too slow to use.

Has anyone else experienced this problem with PICT files?

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