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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can MacDraw II print halftones?
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Date: 30 Aug 89 21:37:38 GMT
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In article <2869@ssc-vax.UUCP> housen@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kevin Housen) writes:
>
>What I would like to be able to do is to Paste a gray
>scale image into something like MacDraw and then
>annotate with circles and arrows and a paragraph
>etc. and then print it - with a reasonable halftone
>rendering of the gray scale image.

Probably the best software for doing this (short of using some kind
of "desktop presentation" package) is Canvas 2.0, from Deneba
Software.  Canvas will accept TIFF images and allow the user to
annotate with PICT type objects like arrows, circles, etc.
It also has excellent text handling functions, so that accompanying
paragraphs can contain text with variable formatting (mixed bold,
italic, etc.).  I'm not sure how true a halftone rendering you
will get, but my recollection is that very acceptable output can
be had, depending on your device.

John Heckendorn
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