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From: howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Mac equivalent to UNIX make (for DTP)
Keywords: Microsoft Word,make,MacDraw II
Message-ID: <43950@cos.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:16:15 GMT
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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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.

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