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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MS-Word 4.0 Bug?
Message-ID: <126900092@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:27 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Nov 10 16:50:00 1989


I am trying to print some postscript i an MS-Word 4.0 picture frame.
The following is formatted in "PostScript" style, according to the
manual's instructions:

------------------- cut here -----------------
.pic.
blah blah blah postscript

[]
[]   
------------------- cut here -----------------
^
| 2 picture frames, in normal style.

Well, when I used the word ".pic." to precede my postscript, MS-Word
eats the postscript and puts nothing in the laserwriter file (I
checked).  After some head-scratching, I figured there must have been a
misspelling in the manual, so I used the word ".pict." to precede my
postscript.  Now MS-Word puts the postscript into the file correctly,
but then the printer dies, saying:

"Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: .pict."

What is the problem?  Is this part of Word 4.0 simply broken
(ohmygosh, a bug in word 4.0!  never!)  Is there a workaround?


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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