Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dawg6844 From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Mac equivalent to UNIX make (for DTP) Keywords: Microsoft Word,make,MacDraw II Message-ID: <1991Feb26.211340.29889@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Feb 91 21:13:40 GMT References: <43950@cos.com> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 60 howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz) writes: >Does anything exist which gives at least some of the functionality >of the UNIX "make" utility, but under the Mac environment (i.e., >not just a programming environment under the Mac interface)? >My problem is that I write a large number of courses and technical >papers which use graphics. Normally, I create slides in >MacDraw II 1.1, and then paste them, with some reduction, into >Word 4.0 documents. At present, I do the reduction with Word, >but I'd be willing to create the graphics as the exact size. >What I'd like to do is something more than a hot-link facility >between Word and MD II, although that in itself would be very >helpful. My REAL goal is something like the following scenario: > I create a graphic (in slide form) in MDII 1.1. Let's > assume this is of the Politically Correct OSI Seven-Layer > Reference Model. > I include this slide in an introductory course, creating > the slide border using the MDII Master Slide facility. > I copy the contents of the slide (i.e., not the border) into > Word via the Clipboard under Multifinder. > --- ENDS what I do now...how I'd like to go on is... > In a different slide presentation, establish a pointer to the > slide in the first (i.e., a library reference). > Show a make-like dependency of the second presentation on a graphic > (ideally the specific graphic) in the first set of slides. > Show a dependency of the first Word document on the above graphic > Create a second Word document; show its dependency on the graphic. > On modifying the base graphic, at least get a list of places I > need to change. Ideally, some of those places would then import > it, ala hot link. >-- >howard@cos.com OR {uunet, decuac, sun!sundc, hadron, hqda-ai}!cos!howard >(703) 883-2812 [W] (703) 998-5017 [H] >DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Corporation >for Open Systems, its members, or any standards body. The only thing I know of that even comes close to doing what you want is PageMaker 4.0 It hot-links to anything you place on a layout, be it graphics or text, and updates them when you do. It doesn't 'show' dependencies, except that in a dialog box you can see what each item is linked to. If you have questions, email me. Dan Walkowski Univ. of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. walkowsk@cs.uiuc.edu