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- From: Phil Buxton <Phil Buxton @BNR.ca>
- Subject: Re: Converting MacDraw to MIF
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.215237.29281@bmers18.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research
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- References: <69104@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:52:37 GMT
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- In article , Bruce_H_Ring@cup.portal.com writes:
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- >
- >I am converting many Macintosh Microsoft Word files
- >to FrameMaker for Windows. The Microsoft Word
- >files contain graphics created with MacDraw which
- >FrameMaker cannot convert.
- >
- >I've heard rumors of a Frame utility/filter that
- >converts MacDraw files to MIF, but no one at Frame
- >knows about it. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
- >(A Windows DLL would be fine.) Is there any other
- >way to convert the graphics and keep them as vector
- >art with objects that FrameMaker for Windows can edit?
-
- Yes, there is a filter, actually two. I have a copy of a
- MAC-based version that came from FRAME that is not too
- bad though we use a text editor to do some extra stuff
- to it to make it work better. It will convert any
- of McDraw1 McDraw2, McDrawPro or PowerPoint via McDraw. 1
-
- There is also a UNIX version PICTtoMIF that is available
- in the std filter package from Frame.
-
- I dont know where the first filter came from, though I
- believe it was Frame themselves. The official name is
- MacDrawToMIF 1.3 copyright Frame Technology 1987,88,
- written by Margie Kaptanoglu. See if that
- information means anything to the Frame people
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