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From: binni@raunvis.UUCP (Brynjolfur Thorsson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: PICT form
Message-ID: <246@raunvis.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 15:14:12 GMT
Organization: Science Inst. Univ. of Iceland
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I am currently devwloping a measurement package on an IBM-PC machine.  This
package is based on special representation of the data.  What I wanted to do
was to get my graphs excactly as they were onto a Mac.  I got my hands on a
list of PICT opcode and simply wrote a PICT file on my PC, and transferred
the file to the Mac, where I could import the file into any drawind package
I wanted to.  There was only one problem.  The resolution was incredibly
poor. This in because the PICT format only allowes integer numbers.
However, since I am only using a small portion of the integer space, I was
thinking about the possibility to use more of this space.  Is it possible to
define some sort of mapping from one rectangle to another ?  What I mean is,
is it possible to define a source rectangle, which maps into a destination
rectangle within the PICT form.

Brynjolfur