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From: cfejm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (John Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Superpaint and Word - objects lose alignments
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.012934.11472@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 01:29:34 GMT
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In article <62085@bbn.BBN.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>In article <61466@brunix.UUCP> man@cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) writes:
>|In article <18907@shlump.nac.dec.com>, long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>||>  THE SCENARIO: Create an object-oriented graphic in Superpaint. Paste it into
>||>  Word. Cut the graphic from Word, paste it back into Superpaint. The object
>||>  alignments are all screwed up!
>||> 
>||>  THE QUESTION: Whodunnit? How can it be fixed?
>|
>|THE ANSWER: Apple.  I believe the problem you are encountering is that the 
>|clipboard format only supports alignment with a precision of 1/72 inch....
>
>Actually, this sounds like the problem that upgrade 4.0B (or 4.00B)
>was created to fix.  You don't say what "all screwed up" means, but if
>you still have the original 4.00 Word you probably need to upgrade
>(they should send you one free).  The problem was with pictures pasted
>into word, copied out and pasted back into the graphics program.
>
>	/JBL
>=
>
>


Our problem is similar--but does anybody have a fix?  The situation:

We use a music notation program called MusicProse (Generates postscript
with proprietary fonts).  PICTS clipped from MusicProse files and pasted
into Word 4 print on a Laserwriter fine (300dpi resolution) but are
often slightly inaccurate.  Notes are often printed 1 pixel row higher
than they should fall on the staff lines, and vertical lines (note stems)
are often consistently wider (say, 2 pixel columns instead of 1) than they
should be.

The notation is readable, of course, but not perfect, as it is when
printed directly from MusicProse.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

--
John Miller
Music Theory
Eastern Illinois University
CFEJM@UX1.CTS.EIU.EDU