Please don't speak to me about "magic"!!!! However... Draw PICT in a gworld, set to oldport, OPENPICTURE with small rectangle, copybits from gworld to screen with the smaller destination rectangle, CLOSE PICTURE save to file/print/whatever... I've got most of the code at home, if you're still interested, I'll parcel it out to you (untested of course - I don't have enough time to *test* anything!!!) Andy ---------- From: Mel and Carol Patrick To: futurebasic@... Subject: [FB] Flatten a PICT Date: 30 April 1998 07:01 While I was working on my cataloging program I ran across something ratherinteresting. Thumbnail PICTS print really ssssllllloooowwww. I'm making a contact sheet with about 80 picts and printing to a Laserwriter, oh about 2 hours. To my Epson stylus, much better. Only 40 minutes per page (in low res). Spooling all the PICTs takes about a minute. So, and some one please correct my logic if its wrong, I figure because the picts contain so many QD commands (10,000 line segments in some of them), the printer driver is choking on these. Or the printer is. Hence my deduction is, take the PICT handle, draw it into a GWORLD, wave a magic wand twice while uttering the magic word, and then draw the new "flattened" PICT from the GWORLD to the printer. Anyone have a "magic wand" function I could use to do this? I can create the GWORLD, get the PICT into it, and then, ah, my wand breaks. I tried copybits to the printer from the GWORLD, nice effect. Bad wand again. I also notice that my magic words have been going steadily downhill... Mel Patrick - theWabbitGuy - mel@... mailto:mel@... http://www.intergate.bc.ca/business/mel -- To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...>