custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss) (05/22/84)
Here is my situation. I have some 512 x 512 bitmaps which I would like to edit with MacPaint. The bitmaps are on a VAX. I am using MacTEP 1.8 to talk to the VAX. It should be possible to download (encoded) 256 x 256 bitmaps to a basic program which would then graph them. The resulting graph can be snap-shotted into a macpaint file. (note: basic => microsoft basic throughout this article) Is it possible to: 1) Create a Macpaint document file directly from a basic program? (This would allow the full 512^2 bitmap to be placed in the file.) 2) Read a Macpaint file from a basic program? (Would like to upload the bitmaps back to the VAX after editing.) 3) Cut a piece of a Macpaint document that is larger than the Macpaint window? (I want to use the bitmaps in MacWrite.) Also, If I could cut and paste bigger than the window, I could get the 512^2 picture in by doing two 256x512 segments in BASIC, snap-shotting each, cutting one and pasting it into the other. (Assuming it could be aligned exactly). It seems (in Macworld) that people ARE using digitizers to create MacPaint documents. Would appreciate any ideas on how to accomplish the above, or suggestions for better ways to do this.