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From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC-PostScript & TeX
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Date: 3 May 89 19:07:48 GMT
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In article <1307@lzfme.att.com> ralph@lzfme.att.com (I like forms, and forms like me) writes:
>What we're trying to do is to find a relatively idiot-proof way of
>incorporating MacDraw II drawings into troff documents with a
>minimum of work.

There are a couple of possible solutions to your problem. A small company by
the name of Taylored Graphics has a utility program, I believe called Xris
Xros, that will take a PostScript file generated with Command F/K and convert
that file to an Adobe Illustrator document, which Illustrator could then save
as an EPSF document.

>One possibility that intrigued me was using DrawOver, which comes
>with the Illustrator 88 package.  Unfortunately, it seems to choke
>on large drawings, dropping all the text (which DOES show up in the
>preview you get).  The other problem is that smoothed lines within
>MacDraw II are converted as straight lines.  Is Adobe aware of this?  

I think they are. They have released a new program, Adobe Streamline, which 
can take TIFF, PICT (I believe) and MacPaint files and will do an intelligent
autotrace on them (much more powerful than the wimpy autotrace found in 
Illustrator 88 or FreeHand - they are using edge/centerline algorithms to
evaluate the drawing). I have used Streamline with TIFF files; I am notpositive
it will do PICT files, but it's worth a call to Adobe. Streamline lists at
around $395.

Robert

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