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From: stuart@previous.ADS.COM (Stuart Crawford)
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Subject: portability problems
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Date: 5 Oct 90 15:07:43 GMT
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I'm preparing a publication on the Macintosh (using PageMaker) and would like
to make use of some figures generated on the NeXT.  When I save my figures in
encapsulated Postscript form and move them to the mac, I find that I cannot use
them.  Here are the symptoms:

1.  When I try to place the figure in PageMaker, I get an error message telling
me that the Postscript file name is longer than 128 characters.
2.  When I try to place the figure in Adobe Illustrator, it looks nothing like
the figure I created on the NeXT.

When I save my figures in Tiff form, and try to use them on the mac, I find
that I cannot.  Here are the symptoms:

1.  ImageStudio tells me that they are in an "unsupported bits per pixel
format". 
2.  PageMaker tells me they are in an "unsupported format"

Am I really going to have to grit my teeth and incorporate these figures with
scissors and glue?  I realize that using FrameMaker on the NeXT instead of
PageMaker on the Mac is the simplest solution, but I don't have the bucks to
acquire FrameMaker.

Thanks in advance,

Stuart
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