Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Better inter-application graphics handling in System 7 Message-ID: <1129@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 12 Feb 90 18:10:58 GMT References: <1128@dutrun.UUCP> <5711@blake.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: University of Minnesota, ACSS Lines: 30 In article <5711@blake.acs.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes: >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: > >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.. > I think the problem is that the Clipboard translates all graphics data it receives into PICT format, which deals rather poorly with things like patterns and line styles. I've also run into this problem with MacDraw II and Word; it's a real pain. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chaz Larson - clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu "Hey, I'm no Jack Kennedy..." - Flaming Carrot ----------------------------------------------------------------------