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<div>Greg Saylor said:</div>
<div>*snip* However, I am no artist and the existing graphics are
already in a</div>
<div>vector-based format. At first I was going to write the
parser for one of<br>
these vector formats inside of Revolution itself, but then I realized
that</div>
<div>this would be overkill.</div>
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<div><font face="New York" size="+1" color="#000000">I work on a Mac,
and am a refugee from SuperCard, so what I do is save the file out of
a CAD program as a pict file (which preserves its vector objects), and
import that into SC. I then run a SC program to write a text
file out that describes each object. I use that text file in a
MC program to then convert the file to MC vector objects/text fields,
and in the case of text fields, to assign them a name corresponding to
their respective textData. Primative, round about, and it means
you translate any 24-bit color into 8 bit color when it gets imported
into SC, and re-translate it back to RGB when you create the object in
MC, but it beats redrawing everything.</font></div>
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Be happy to shoot you these "wonders" of programming
"art" if you want to contact me off-list.</font><br>
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<div><font face="New York" size="+1" color="#000000">about
SVG:</font></div>
<div><font face="New York" size="+1" color="#000000">I've been trading
e-mails with Scott (and Kevin) about importing vectors, and the
possibility of adding Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to the MC
engine. When/if MC adds SVG capability, any CAD program that can
save objects in SVG format (as can Illustrator, among several others),
will give us something we can import. </font></div>
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<div><font face="New York" size="+1" color="#000000">Details are being
kicked around, but it might not hurt to get folks interested in such
to toss in their two-bits..</font></div>
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