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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: INSET & Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <869@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 87 05:21:24 GMT
References: <1831@optilink.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: works marginally with MS Word


We have inset.  We got it about 6 months ago.  I wasn't all that
impressed.  Interstingly, the older version worked better than the
newer version.  It only works with MS Word in the non-graphic mode.
I got better results using Word Star.  In fact, I think inset comes
bundled with WS 2000.

Inset works well with 24 pin printers and can be limited clipping
of images from other programs.  Inset does a very nice job at
generating in halftones on monochrome 24 pin printers.  The newer
releases of inset also include a linited (not too bad) graphics
editor.

Inset works by taking over the printer DOS interrupt function and
monitoring for an embedded string whereupon it inserts the desired
grphic.  It sounds good in theory, but there are some rough edges
in practice.  Serial printers only worked sometimes.  I never could
get printing to a file to work.

For general purpose graphics, Pizzaz is a better program, as it is
much more robust in being able to pop up throug anything -- even
Microsoft Windows!! -- and capture graphics.  Pizzaz also has some
neat antialiasing features.  Pizzaz works very well with color 24
pin printers.  In fact Pizzaz's output with Okidata 292 printers
actually looks better than HP Laserjet II output.  Inset has to be
matched beforehand with the program you want it to pop up inside.

--Bill