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Subject: Re: Graphics and MS Word 5.0 questions
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.233915.1903@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 04:39:15 GMT
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In article <1012@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>, kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard) writes:
> -----
> First:  Is the graphic being written to the print-file?  If you are
> really getting no error messages, then this should be OK.
> -----
> 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.
> --
> 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.
> --
> 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.)
> -----
> * The second has to do
> * with graphs from Quattro Pro.  There is no direct interface between
> * ...
> ---- Sorry, can't help here.
> --
> ----------------------------
> anyhow, happy hacking
> Ken


Sorry to disappoint you, but I have NEVER experienced the problem you 
describe, and it is a trivial thing to position the graphic.  When you 
import the graphic, don't just accept the position that MSW suggests; 
use the F1 key to view the alternative dimensions and positioning, and 
use the alternatives!  They are almost always better than the default.

I must also say that my graphics printing problem was not always a problem.
For quite a while everything worked as it should.  Then one day, the 
graphics magically stopped appearing.  This is what happens when you
let a bunch of people (in this case, the graduate students in my research
group) use a common PC and a common program, but each one likes to use
his or her own settings and defaults.  Someone obviously changed the
PRINT OPTIONS DRAFT setting from no to yes, which is what caused the
problem.

Doug Smith