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Though apple doesn't support pict2's on a newton, I do.
The following is $5 shareware.
It uses any pict file as input and outputs a slurpee text file. What is a
slurpee text file, you might ask?
With any ascii sending communications program on mac, the newton slurpee
communications program on newton decodes a slurpee text file into a newton binary
file. With these, you can get both mac text and graphics through the serial port
on a newton!
Now, to make the pictures, add mac shareware print2pict and you can see fully
formatted in black and white on your newton anything you can printout, in sharp
zoomable scrollable form, stored there as memory saving quickdraw commands
(macdrawlike picts).
With it you can turn Delorme maps on cd called Street Atlas USA into zoomable
scrollable pictures on your newton. First, you print the map with print2pict into
a mac picture. Click on the application and a minifinder dialogue shows you pict
files to select for processing.
It saves all quickdraw pict 2 information except the yellow backgrounds which
would obscure things on the newton.
I can adapt my source to other maps with other color obscuring features if
you want it specialized to your map database output. Just send me a sample.
When I receive your shareware fee, I shall send you a zooming scrolling
newton pict-viewer program and upgrades will soon be made available, if there is
sufficient such encouraging response, for a full blown gps navigational system
(for an additional fee of $10).
Send $5 to my address and you will enter my gps beta test community and get
deals on the navigational upgrades.
Paul M. Sheldon
333 Melrose Drive, Apartment 33 B
Richardson, Texas 75080-4655