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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
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Subject: Re: Color PICTs
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Date: 5 Jan 90 00:12:10 GMT
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In article <126900138@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I have been trying to transfer a small color picture (from MacDraw
>II), but every time I paste it into the clipboard, the color
>information is lost.
>
>My real goal is to store a color PICT in the resource file of an
>application.  I've also tried "Save as PICT" in MacDraw II, but it is
>stored in the file's data fork, not as a PICT resource.
>
>Is this a MacDraw II bug (it won't let color escape from the
>application as a PICT)?  Or is there some problem with color on the
>clipboard?  
>
If I recall correctly, the latest version or MacDraw II allows you to
copy to the Clipboard in color or B/W. (There is some kind of
option/preference where you specify your choice.) Previous versions
only copied B/W.

There is another potential problem you may encounter in trying to paste
the picture as a PICT resource into a file. I had this problem with
my version of MacDraw II (which at 1.0v4 is not the latest) and ResEdit 1.2b3.
I discovered that MacDraw II copies two versions of the picture to the
Clipboard. One, the first, is its own format (type MDPL),
the second is in PICT format. (To see this effect, paste a MacDraw II
picture from the Clipboard to the Scrapbook -- the Scrapbook will list the
types). When I went to paste the MacDraw II picture with ResEdit
into the resource fork of an application I was developing, ResEdit
only pasted the first version, which was the MacDraw II format and not
PICT. I had to give up using MacDraw II for this purpose and revert
to MacDraw 1.9.5, which only copies the PICT format to the Clipboard.
(This was "ok" because I wasn't working with a color picture.)

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