Re: Converting Mac screen dumps to PC

[George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM>]

Works for me, Mike. :D  Thanks also to Mac McCartt in Thousand Oaks for
his timely adds.  Got a spare 7500 not doing anything?  :D  How much if
you're willing to part with it? :D

When I had to dump Mac based graphics into Winword documents, these were
from *very* old Mac SEs running electrical die test programs in a die
fab with (shudder!) System 6.0.2 (!).  The test programs were developed
in Turbo Pascal 1.1 (double shudder!) because there weren't many *386s*
around, much less 486s and Pentiums with VBA-based homebrew test apps
available for use on the Wafer Fab, Die Fab, Assembly or Manufacturing
Test floors!

Putting it as *politely* as possible, the programmers we had at the time
were scrambling like fiends in trying to do some major upgrades of the
computer-controlled testers in spite of the fact that the morons on
Mahogany Row kept making stupid decision after stupid decision on how to
grow the company.  As the lone TW there at the time (1994-1996), trying
to document these ancient systems while new ones were being built was
truly a challenge.   Trying to do something like that is definitely
*NOT* for the faint of heart! :D

Thanks again, Mike and Mac! :D  Melanie, I hope you're printing this all
out and saving it in a binder!

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Stockman [SMTP:stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 11:10 AM
> To:   George Mena; TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Converting Mac screen dumps to PC
>
> On 7/17/1998 1:46 PM, George Mena (George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM) wrote:
>
> >Factual clarifications and corrections for the list, for Mike
> Stockman
> >and for Melanie Gray:
> >
> >1)  Command-Shift-3 is the hotkey sequence in the Mac environment.
> This
> >is easily verifiable by reading the Macintosh Bible.
>
> Beginning with MacOS8, command-shift-3 makes a PICT of the entire
> screen,
> while command-shift-4 lets you drag to select the area you want to
> capture.
>
> >2)  Screen captures are numbered from Picture 0 through Picture 9
> >*ONLY.*   When you get to Picture 9, drag the files to diskette to
> save
> >them, then either delete the original Picture x files or save the
> next
> >batch of graphics in another folder on the Mac in question to avoid
> >accidentally overwriting the first batch.
>
> As you sent privately, this isn't true with MacOS8 either. It keeps
> numbering on up, forever... give or take.
>
> >3)  Mac-based screen captures are saved as MacPaint-formatted
> graphics,
> >NOT in PICT format!  After the captures are created, they need to be
> >converted to PICT before a Windows application like Photoshop can use
> >them.  The Mac version of Photoshop should work well here.  So will
> >ExpertDraw, which not only gives you PICT files but also EPS files.
> >It's $29US or something like that.
>
> PICT format is correct with all recent MacOS releases. I'm not sure
> when
> it started... somewhere in MacOS 7-land.
>
> >4)  MacPaint-based screen captures that have been converted to PICT
> >format can in fact be imported into WinWord documents, beginning at
> Word
> >6 and continuing to Word 97
>
> Word can import PICT files, as can other programs. I've had more
> problems
> with PICT files (both bugs and cross-platform issues) than I've ever
> had
> with TIFF, GIF, or JPEG files, so that's what I recommended using.
> Besides, TIFF will work with virtually any publishing platform known,
> whether it's UNIX, MacOS, Windows, OS/2, etc., while PICT probably
> won't
> fare so well.
>
> Just to set the record straight...
>
> ----->Mike
>
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