Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU!carter
From: carter@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU ("Thomas J. Carter")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word annoyance
Message-ID: <CMM.0.88.619833590.carter@portia.stanford.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 89 23:59:50 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 28


    I'm having a few problems with Word 4.0 which I can't solve and
Microsoft Tech Support didn't have any solution to.  The situation
is this:  I created some letterhead in Adobe and placed the postcript
into the header of a Word file.  This works great, but with two
major annoyances.

    First, Page View and Print Preview have become useless because
Word displays the postcript as if it were standard text, forcing all
my regular text all over the place.  Ideally I'd like to have the
postcript displayed in some semblance of what it will look like when
printed but I'd settle for allowing my text to appear where it will
when printed.

    Secondly, I followed the instructions in the manual about inserting
the translate command at the top of the postcript to have it positioned
properly on the page.  It said to use the numbers given after the
%%BoundingBox: part of the postcript.  Well that didn't even come close
to working so I counted pixels and got the coordinates right myself.
Everything was fine until I printed my document on a different printer.
Suddenly my letterhead was way out of position.  The two printers were
a Laserwriter IINT and an NTX.

    As usual, thanks in advance.  Any solutions or hacks will be greatly
appreciated.

Tom Carter
carter@portia.stanford.edu