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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Better inter-application graphics handling in System 7
Message-ID: <5711@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 17:08:02 GMT
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Reply-To: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1128@dutrun.UUCP> johan@dutnak2.UUCP (Johan de Haas) writes:
>I find that the current Macintosh graphics handling is often 
>quite lousy. Let me illustrate that with two examples:
>
>-   When you copy graphics from MacDrawII to Word 4.0 or WriteNow 2.0,
>    linestyles (dotted, striped) and line thicknesses usually get
>    mixed up. When you resize the MacDraw graphic in Word, e.g. a
>    flowchart, things misalign, causing the text and the boxes around 
>    it to overlap.
>
>-   We use IGOR, a sophisticated "plotting" application that I can
>    heartily recommend. Suppose you plot a smooth function like a 
>    sine. Directly printing from IGOR to the LaserWriter gives perfect
>    smooth results. However, exporting the graph to Word or MacDraw
>    and printing no longer gives a smooth result. Doing so, the
>    function looks "piecewise continuous".
>
>Johan de Haas     tel. +31 15 785188   E-mail: johan@dutnak0.tudelft.nl


Still just a beginner in the mac world, and one who isn't familiar
with IGOR or MacDrawII, my guess is that the clipboard
doesn't accept objects... a clipped object gets converted
to bitmap.  What Word gets is a bitmapped image of your
object from IGOR...  then your printer does a 72 dpi job on
an otherwise beautiful graph....

just a thought.. maybe well off into the ozone..

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu