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Re: Text and objects don't ... SOLVED

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From: Lydia
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 05:12
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gregoret@celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Lydia) writes:

>Does anyone know a good workaround for this "known MacDraw II 1.1
>bug"?

>I am having trouble getting objects and text to line up properly when
>printing.  I have a large text object in Courier font.  I would like to
>circle and underline some of the letters, etc.  I create my drawing on
>the screen and it looks fine.  But when I try to print (LWIInxt), the
>objects are all shifted to the left about one 12pt character and not
>scaled quite properly relative to the text (they shrink)....
 ... stuff deleted...

Well, I solved my own problem -- I saved the document in MacDrawII as
a PICT2 file, opened it up again, printed it, and everything came
out (nearly) aligned.  The alignment was better if I opened and printed the 
PICT2 file in SuperPaint, but my curves came out unsmoothed.

Lydia Gregoret
gregoret@cgl.ucsf.edu
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From: gregoret@celeste.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Lydia)
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Subject: Re: Text and objects don't ... SOLVED
Keywords: MacDraw, Courier font, known problem
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Date: 3 Apr 91 05:12:30 GMT
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