johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (01/22/90)
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