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Re: Mac SuperPaint -> Adobe Illustrator -> NeXT ps

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From: Henry Troup
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 15:12
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In article <6151@adobe.UUCP> dkletter@adobe.UUCP (It's all fun and games until someone PUTS AN EYE OUT) writes:
>well, Illustrator doesn't recognize PICTs as anything. Illustrator will let
>you use PAINT files as templates, but that doesn't sound like what you want.
>the best thing to do is to open the SuperPaint file in Adobe Photoshop and
>save that as a .EPS file. you should be able to upload that to your NeXT
>quite easily.

Our version of Illustrator has a separate program called 'Draw Over' that
converts PICT to EPS.  You then open the translated file, and open the
PICT as template, save it, and you get really nice MacDraw -> eps.

So, do I dream in technicolour, or did you over look a detail or two :-)
--
Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions | No humor available today
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From: hwt@bwdlh490.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Re: Mac SuperPaint -> Adobe Illustrator -> NeXT ps
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