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From: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How can you Save Winword Doc as PCX/TIFF for Fax ?
Message-ID: <4192.276373ba@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 10 Dec 90 11:38:34 GMT
References: <5084.2762814d@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <5084.2762814d@cc.curtin.edu.au>, Laslett_GI@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> I would like to be able to Transmit a document as a Fax via
> a Faxcard which will accept PCX or TIFF files for Transmission.
> 
> The Windows clipboard will not permit Paintbrush to paste from
> an entire page of "Cut/Copy"ed Winword information.
> 
> Does anyone know a way to "Save" a Winword document in TIFF
> or PCX format.  ie. the whole printed page becomes a single
> graphic field.
..
> Greg Laslett                                       Perth

    You could print the document to an EPS-file and then  somehow
    extract the  TIFF bitmap from the EPS. I don't recall whether
    the standard Windows Postscript driver has an option for pro-
    ducing EPS-files, but I think Designer comes with  a  special
    PS-driver.

    Teemu

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