--- on 9/23/97 11:43 PM , nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:

>	Does anyone know how to make SimpleText documents with pictures
>embedded? I want to release better doco with the Booter, and making it in
>TeachText/SimpleText is easier for most people to read than HTML (which I
>will also maintain for Puma and the NetBSD mirrors). But I have not worked
>out how to paste pictures/screen shots into the document's text yet.

You need to do this with ResEdit. First, open your doc in SimpleText, and 
type return, option-space, return wherever you want a graphic to appear. 
Save the file, close it and open it in ResEdit (let it create a resource 
fork if it asks). Paste your pictures into the ResEdit window (it will 
create the PICT resource automatically) in the order they are to appear 
in the document.

Next you need to assign IDs to the new PICT resources. Select each one in 
turn, Get Info from ResEdit's Resource menu, and change the ID for the 
first graphic to 1000, the second to 1001, and so on.

Save the file and close. Open it in SimpleText and the graphics should 
appear (centered) wherever you placed an option-space. You'll usually 
need to add some returns to get the picture/text spacing correct. Save it 
once you get it right. Finally, I usually change the file type to "ttro" 
to make it read-only.

mark



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