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From: fax0236@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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Subject: Re: Graphics and MS Word 5.0 questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.103054.1900@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:30:54 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
> files from graphics and drawing programs, and spreadsheet graphs from
> Quattro Pro.
> 
> I am also printing to a file on disk rather than directly to my laser
> printer, which is a DEC LN03R.  I do this because the LN03R is hanging
> off my microVAX, and I run PCSA to allow printing from the PC, by using
> the "net print file.ext port" command.
> 
> 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?  The second has to do
> with graphs from Quattro Pro.  There is no direct interface between
> QP and Word, yet QP will save information in 1-2-3 format or HPGL, and 
> Word reads both (I believe).  Yet I cannot seem to get Word to import
> the graphic from QP.  Any comments or suggestions here?
> 
> Thanks.  Post answers or send them directly to me.
> 
> Doug Smith
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Toledo
> FAX0236@UOFT02.BITNET or FAX0236@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU

Thanks to all the people who sent responses.  The answer to my first question
is that MS Word has to be set with Printer Option Draft mode OFF in order
for the graphics to print.

No one has yet come up with a satisfactory answer to my question about 
importing Quattro graphics to MSW.

Doug Smith