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From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard)
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Subject: Re: Graphics and MS Word 5.0 questions
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Date: 16 Oct 90 13:48:43 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.000529.1882@uoft02.utoledo.edu> fax0236@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
* I am using Microsoft Word 5.0 and am trying to import several types
* of graphics into my documents.  These include encapsulated postscript
* ...
* 
* I am also printing to a file on disk rather than directly to my laser
* ...
* 
* The two problems are as follows.  First, when I use the Library Link
* Graphics command in MS Word, I get the typical response and a line in
* the document describing the imported graphic.  When I print this to
* disk using the Print File command, no error messages occur.  When I print
* the document, the proper size space is in the proper place, but no
* graphic is printed.  Any comments or suggestions?
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First:  Is the graphic being written to the print-file?  If you are
really getting no error messages, then this should be OK.
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Second:  Is MSWORD properly positioning the PostScript next-place-to-print
and correctly setting the PostScript current-apparent-page-origin?  PROBABLY
NOT.  MSWORD 5 does _not_ properly handle _most_ plain-PostScript and
encapsulated-PostScript files in this respect.
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Microsoft denies any problem, but it's there and it is a PAIN.  Every
PostScript file, plain or encapsulated, assumes that there is an "origin"
setup/known/defaulted/builtin which is the lower-left corner of the
available hardware drawing space.  MSWORD usually does _not_ manage to
get the required info from the plotfile to put it into the printfile
or printstream.  In fact, it's not clear that it _ever_ really does this.
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So you have two alternatives:  either generate your plotfiles to put the
graphic where you want it in spite of MSWORD;  or write an MSWORD macro or
two to take the requested positioning info from the MSWORD document, and
get the plotsetup info from the plotfile, and munge the two together, and
put the required fixup into the plotfile (NOT the MSWORD file.)
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* The second has to do
* with graphs from Quattro Pro.  There is no direct interface between
* ...
---- Sorry, can't help here.
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anyhow, happy hacking
Ken