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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Better inter-application graphi
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.052834.9577@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 90 05:28:34 GMT
References: <1017@ucl-cs.UUCP> <126900187@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <126900187@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

.My general impression is that MacDraw II is too flakey.  v1.1 doesn't
.seem to export pictures at > 72dpi precision...

.Aligning something at 400% does not guarantee alignment when printed
.on a postscript laser printer.  Often, I had to align something at
.1600% in order to get the needed results.  I suspect this problem is
.due to a lack of understanding of numerical analysis on the part of
.the software architects.  This problem is so fundamental, that I have
.abandoned using the software.  Now I use canvas.

Actually, you should align at 417% to get exact matches with the Laserwriter.
OR set the exact-bitmaps bit in the LW dialog (giving you exactly 4:1 scaling)

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@neon.stanford.edu)