[OzTeX] editing pict files

[David Goldenberg]

Jay,
    Take a look at this page at the MacIntouch site:

http://www.macintouch.com/drawreplacements.html

It includes reports from numerous users who have tried various MacDraw 
Replacements.  At the bottom of the page, there are links to programs 
that are claimed to offer some MacDraw incompatibility.  I've looked 
briefly at EazyDraw and Intaglio, and they can definitely open and edit 
old ClarisDraw documents.  I'm not sure about what formats they can save 
in.  But, lots of these programs are available in trial modes, so you 
should be able to find out if they will work for you.

David Goldenberg

Jay Yellen wrote:
> 
> Dear OzTex users:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 usuall 
> y 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).  
> 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 t ry OmniGraffle 
> with the v4 upgrade.
> 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?
> Question 2: Have any of you been able to accomplish this task with any 
> other software?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jay Yellen
> 
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