Re: [NTLK] Making Backdrops in OS X

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 19:11:02 PDT

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Wiley Wiggins wrote:

> Isn't it odd that no one has made a simple droplet application that
> will let you convert images to Avi's Backdrop readable books? In OS X
> it's not easy, since at least Newton Press is not usable...

Not easy with AppleScript perhaps, but with a working knowledge of the book
format you could create a book part that could be compiled with NTK (which is
AppleScriptable, from what I know, at least from the Classic world). The
image within a book is just a PICT (not a PICT2) image.

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