folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (12/30/89)
I am trying to share some graphics with a **DOS user friend. I use Apple File Exchange to write the MacPaint-format files to my FDHD, then give them to him. He uses First Publisher to attempt to read it. The funny thing is this: True MacPaint files that I purchased, he can read. MacPaint files saved from any of my applications (MacVision, Digital Darkroom, Curator, Super Paint 1.1), he cannot read! What could be the difference? If I read a True MacPaint file into MV, DD, or SP, then Save As them in MacPaint format, they end up being shorter than the original. (Curator seems to preserve the size.) I guess that all of my Mac programs use Toolbox routines to read MacPaint, and the Toolbox code must be fairly robust. Obviously, First Publisher is not so robust... But what can I do (short of buying MacPaint, that is :-)). -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)