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From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Figures in Word 4.0
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Date: 23 Jan 91 08:12:59 GMT
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biswa@hoff.berkeley.edu (Biswa Ranjan Ghosh) writes:
>Sorry if this has been discussed already, but I find inaccuracies in my
>laser printouts of pictures which are pasted into Word from MacDraw.
>They print out perfectly when printed directly from MacDraw. But when I
>paste them into my Word document and then print, arrowheads are lopsided,
>and some lines are too long, running into or out of other objects.

Do you mean MacDrawII?  If so, read on...

This is a very frustrating problem!  If I remember correctly, it was
discussed on c.s.m sometime back, but I don't remember ever seeing any
satisfying answer.  I think the problem is that somewhere along the way
from leaving MacDrawII (with the desired graphics on the clipboard),
entering MSWord, and pasting into a Word document, the graphics info
(with high precision) gets converted to PICT format, which, I think, can
only have 1/72-inch (1-pt) accuracy.  If that is so, either MacDrawII
or MSWord (or both) must be changed to keep the higher-precision data.

Does this sound right?

> Would it help to
>	(c) Jump up and down while printing.

One never knows :-) !


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