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Steve Parker wrote:
> 
> I would like my mac to be able, yet again, to outshine the PCs of my
> co-workers, but I am stuck.  Can you help ?
> 
> A (PC) colleague of mine has received an e-mail attachment (reportedly
> some kind of technical CAD picture) and has asked me to "decode" it as so
> far I have always been able to translate "whatever graphics file" he has
> ever been able (or forced) to throw at me.  This time I am stymied because
> nothing in my arsenal (no, not even Maclink Plus, nor Graphic Converter)
> has ----SNIP

what version of GC?

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Steve Parker <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>  This time I am stymied because 
> nothing in my arsenal (no, not even Maclink Plus, nor Graphic Converter)
> has any idea what to do with a PC ".drw" file.

Don't know exactly, but .drw sounds like `draw', which makes me think
that it's some kind of vector format like MacDraw files.

Have you tried looking at the file with something like HexEdit to see if
there's anything human-readable in there?

Rowland.

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<steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> writes
>I would like my mac to be able, yet again, to outshine the PCs of my 
>co-workers, but I am stuck.  Can you help ?
>
> 
>Can anyone help me (and 
>hence the poor PC user) out by telling me what application makes .drw 
>files.  I would especially like to hear from anyone who knows of a mac 
>utility which might be able to read these files and hopefully turn 'em into 
>eps's or perhaps pict's - but I suppose I could live with it if you can tell 
>me of a PC utility which can do it  (I would just have to use Soft PC; 
>convert his file and then still tell him I did it on a Mac!)
>
Well here it is:

.DRW = MICROGRAFIX DRAW

I have access to both a PC & Mac, unfortunatly I dont know
of a package on the mac that opens .DRW files. Although Paintshop pro
on the PC supports this file extention.

I still don't know if this is a vector file or pict.

Paintshop pro is free for 30 days on most cover cd's on pc mags.

if you dont want to buy a pc mag then buy a NET mag or a 
cross platform mag

good luck
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darren hayles

In article <350C2ADD.3C1A@parkfish.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger of 
steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk wrote...
>
>A (PC) colleague of mine has received an e-mail attachment (reportedly 
>some kind of technical CAD picture) and has asked me to "decode" it as so 
>far I have always been able to translate "whatever graphics file" he has 
>ever been able (or forced) to throw at me.  This time I am stymied because 
>nothing in my arsenal (no, not even Maclink Plus, nor Graphic Converter) 
>has any idea what to do with a PC ".drw" file.  Can anyone help me 

It is a vector format proprietory to MicroGrafx Designer and Draw, the 
former of which at least is a powerful and hideous to use package.

I suspect you may be out of luck, though Microsoft Word 6 (PC) has in 
import filter for them.

We have a site license for Micrografx here, you could always email me the 
picture and I will try to do something sensible with it. 

-- 
ap

darren hayles wrote:
> 
> <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> writes
> >I would like my mac to be able, yet again, to outshine the PCs of my
> >co-workers, but I am stuck.  Can you help ?
> >
> >
> >Can anyone help me (and
> >hence the poor PC user) out by telling me what application makes .drw
> >files.  I would especially like to hear from anyone who knows of a mac
> >utility which might be able to read these files and hopefully turn 'em into
> >eps's or perhaps pict's - but I suppose I could live with it if you can tell
> >me of a PC utility which can do it  (I would just have to use Soft PC;
> >convert his file and then still tell him I did it on a Mac!)
> >
> Well here it is:
> 
> .DRW = MICROGRAFIX DRAW
> 
> I have access to both a PC & Mac, unfortunatly I dont know
> of a package on the mac that opens .DRW files. Although Paintshop pro
> on the PC supports this file extention.
> 
> I still don't know if this is a vector file or pict.
> 
> Paintshop pro is free for 30 days on most cover cd's on pc mags.
> 
> if you dont want to buy a pc mag then buy a NET mag or a
> cross platform mag
> 
> good luck
> --
> darren hayles


I'll have to try to get hold of a copy of Paintshop Pro then - thanks for info

Steve
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Lawrence Flowers wrote:
> 
> Steve Parker wrote:
> >
> > I would like my mac to be able, yet again, to outshine the PCs of my
> > co-workers, but I am stuck.  Can you help ?
> >
> > A (PC) colleague of mine has received an e-mail attachment (reportedly
> > some kind of technical CAD picture) and has asked me to "decode" it as SNIP
> > has ----SNIP
> 
> what version of GC?


My version of GC is 2.6

Might you be suggesting that some other (newer ) version might read it?

--
Steve Parker
steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk

Steve Parker <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> My version of GC is 2.6
> 
> Might you be suggesting that some other (newer ) version might read it?

It's a vague possibility.  I think the current version is now beyond
2.9.1.

Rowland.

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I'm running GC 3.1 here...

Hugh Browton wrote:
> 
> I'm running GC 3.1 here...

Oh, newer than my 3.0.2.  I better get updated!

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andy the pugh wrote:
> 
> In article <350C2ADD.3C1A@parkfish.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger of
> steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk wrote...
> >
> >A (PC) colleague of mine has received an e-mail attachment (reportedly
SNIP
> >nothing in my arsenal (no, not even Maclink Plus, nor Graphic drw"
 > >file.  Can anyone help me
> 
> It is a vector format proprietory to MicroGrafx Designer and Draw, the
> former of which at least is a powerful and hideous to use package.
> 
> I suspect you may be out of luck, though Microsoft Word 6 (PC) has in
> import filter for them.
> 
> picture and I will try to do something sensible with it.
> 

Andy,
	are you sure about Word 6 (PC) having a filter, 'cos that is the package 
my colleague originally tried to import this file into.  His is Word 97, but 
I would hope that "Bill" doesn't take away anything from his word 
processors when he produces the next generation, so I am now surprised if 
version 6 would have been able to read it and Word 97 can't.

If you can confirm Wod 6's capability I will get thge mastwer disks out for 
Word 6 and try to install these filters which are obviously missing.

Thanks for the info


Steve
 steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk /

In article <350EEDC3.4294A50E@teaftech.demon.co.uk>,
Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Hugh Browton wrote:
>> 
>> I'm running GC 3.1 here...
>
>Oh, newer than my 3.0.2.  I better get updated!
>

Too late Lawrence, it's up to 3.1.1 now...

In article <350EEE89.37@parkfish.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger of 
steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk wrote...

>Andy,
>        are you sure about Word 6 (PC) having a filter, 'cos that is the 
package 
>my colleague originally tried to import this file into.

Under Insert-Picture one of the formats in the drop down selection is 
'Micrografx Design/Draw .drw' which sounds like what you want. I should 
stress that this is on a PC though, and I have not confirmed its 
functionality. 


-- 
ap

In article <6eoojm$om9$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk>,
A.C.Pugh@shef.ac.uk (andy the pugh) wrote:

>In article <350EEE89.37@parkfish.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger of 
>steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk wrote...
>
>>Andy,
>>        are you sure about Word 6 (PC) having a filter, 'cos that is the 
>package 
>>my colleague originally tried to import this file into.
>
>Under Insert-Picture one of the formats in the drop down selection is 
>'Micrografx Design/Draw .drw' which sounds like what you want. I should 
>stress that this is on a PC though, and I have not confirmed its 
>functionality. 
>
>
>-- 
>ap
>

It is entirely possible that if you have a legal installation of a
Micrografx product on your machine then it could add filters to allow other
applications (e.g. Word) to  read files in the proprietary formats used by
the product. Trying to read a .drw file into Word on a machine that has a
legal Micrografx license is not a good test of whether Word will always
read .drw files


Chris. T.