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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I have several hundred pict files, originally created with MacDraw, that I use to display figures depicting graphs (configurations of nodes and lines). These figures are invoked by PlainTex source files, using OzTex.
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Until I switched to OS X, I was able to use my ancient version of MacDraw to create and to edit them and to then invoke them in the same way as before. The size of these MacDraw-output pict files are in usually in the 4K to 8K range. I'm told that these pict files are vector picts, as opposed to bitmapped picts, which are much bigger files (I'm not familiar with any of this stuff).
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">I can no longer use MacDraw, under OS X, and I'm hoping to find a way to edit my old pict files as needed so that they remain as vector picts. Appleworks doesn't seem to work. Someone suggested I try OmniGraffle with the v4 upgrade.
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Question 1: Have any of you been able to use OmniGraffle to open, edit, and save old pict files in the vector format that works with OzTeX PlainTeX?
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Question 2: Have any of you been able to accomplish this task with any other software?
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Thanks in advance,
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Jay Yellen</font>
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