Re: Better inter-application graphics handling in System 7

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From: Chaz Larson
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 18:10

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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>

 


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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
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Subject: Re: Better inter-application graphics handling in System 7
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Date: 12 Feb 90 18:10:58 GMT
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