#Drawover
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I had some problems getting this to work with an AppleScanned PICT file
today, in fact my SE had a rather spectacular crash (screen flashes and
loud buzzing noise) when I tried. Is this a known problem or am I
experiencing something out of the Twighlight Zone?
To the best of my knowledge, DrawOver will not work with a PICT scan
file…all you'd get is a big rectangle (although I doubt that it is
supposed to buzz and crash as you say). DrawOver is designed for PICT
object files., like those created by MacDraw 1.9…in this case it simply
"draws" a PostScript shape for every corresponding object in the file.
Works great with some old MacDraw Clip art I had laying around. I don't
believe DrawOver is compatible with MacDraw II, however. -Scott Leyes
I didn't know that their was that much of a difference between a scanned
PICT and a drawn PICT. How would one get a scanned PICT into Illustrator?
Use as a Template like MacPaint files?
Illustrator will identify and use PICT files as templates, but PICT
files seem to use a LOT more memory (RAM) than MacPaint files…enough to
cause frequent "out of memory" situations on a Mac Plus with a single meg
of RAM.
The best way I've found to incorporate scanned images is to save them as an
EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) file, then use the "Place" command (in the
file menu). This will place a rectangular object on your illustrator
screen, which you can slant/distort/scale etc, and can see in preview
mode. If your scanner software doesn't save in the EPS format, you might
consider using some image retouching software like ImageStudio.
DrawOver has only worked for me occasionally (and then only on documents
created in MacDraw, not PICT drawings from other applications like Canvas
or SuperPaint). When it fails I have seen lots of different unpleasant
crashes.