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At 2:18pm Jan 16 '90, J.Pearce@uk.ac.uc.lcs (J.Pearce@ucl-cs.UUCP) wrote
 > [stuff about accuracy problems in drawings copied out of MacDraw II and
 >  subsequently pasted into MSWord and other stuff.]
 > [Claris told him that this problem can be aleviated by setting MacDraw II
 >  to 72 division/inch]
 >
 > simplified by using the set view command). As I understand the problem the
 > clipboard/QuickDraw is unable to transfer the high precision offered by
 > MacDraw II/Postscript ????
 > 
 > This problem has come as rather a shock as I understood the Macintosh
 > offered a relatively integrated environment for the exchange of text and
 > graphics.

I am a bit peeved about this, too.  I have looked at the PostScript output of
MacDrawII and at the corresponding PostScript output of the same picture that
has been pasted into MS Word (v4.0).  While I do not know PostScript, I did
find one line that seems to show a significant difference between the two.

           MacDrawII:   TT -130 -125 3170 2425 100 300 300 1 F F F F T T T psu
    Pasted to MSWord:   TT  -31  -30  761  582 100  72  72 1 F F F F T T T psu
						    |   |
						    |   |
						    \   /
						     \ /
						      v
			    Vertical and Horizontal Resolution (dots/inch)
					      (I think)

Note that the PostScript from MSWord only has 72 dots/inch resolution, so of
course the accuracy will not be that of the 300 dots/inch resolution of
MacDrawII.

Do the people at Apple have anything to say about this?  Does the clipboard
not have the capability of copying with better than 72 dot/inch resolution?
Or did Claris just not allow that capability out of MacDrawII?

Any comments from Apple or Claris would be appreciated.  Thanks.


                                     Erik A. Johnson
                                     Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Engineering
                                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                     johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu