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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Figures in Word 4.0
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Date: 23 Jan 91 15:56:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.081259.17025@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) writes:
> 
> 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.

The solution is to use EPS files.  MacDraw Pro (announced at MacWorld
Expo) will support this format.  It can represent figures at higher 
precision than can PICT.

-- michael


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