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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: postscript from macdrawII
Message-ID: <2886@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 23:42:21 GMT
References: <7865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <494@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <494@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu> gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) writes:
]In article <7865@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:
]>Does anyone know how to make MacDrawII dump a drawing postscript
]>file?  I've tried using clover-f just after I print the file, but
]>that didn't do it (I think that clover-f does something in the
]>arrange menu).
]>

Is Apple going to make the clover-f or clover-k a standard feature?

I don't know much about Macintosh, but based on what I see on screen,
I noticed that all Macintosh software brings up the same dialog box
as far as printing is involved.  Looks to me that all the clover-f stuff
comes from a toolkit.  It would be nice if a "print to file" option is
added to the dialog box.  If this feature is made standard, and the file
is saved in EPSF instead of the unportable LaserPrep code, it would
set up an automatic graphic interchange among all Macintosh software.

I had a PowerPoint document that contains an imported EPSF drawing from
FreeHand.  I needed to extract the drawing and import it into another 
application program.  I used clover-f to capture the printing
and edited the file to remove the PowerPoint stuff.  Though I got the
PS portion of the drawing, I couldn't recover the Preview image.  The
drawing becomes useless for being imported to another software.

It would be nice if I can print my page into EPSF format and use it
directly.

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