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From: mongoose@trwdis.UUCP (mongoose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Help with Postscript embedded in Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <22@trwdis.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 04:09:57 GMT
Organization: TRW Data Integration Systems
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Keywords: postscript word microsoft macdraw laserwriter

I am trying to take a form template from a MacDraw drawing and print text on
it using Microsoft Word.  I "print" the form template to disk using Clover-F
to create a PostScript file in MacDraw.  I then put this postscript into the
header for my document and give it the style "postscript".  There is a funny
character near the end of the PostScript file that appears on the screen to
look like a rectangle, I delete this character and presto, I get the form
printed, followed by another page that contains the text that I wanted on
the same page as the form.  

Has anyone done this before and have some experiences I could benefit from?
I have wasted about fifty pages of paper trying to solve this problem.  I
have looked through my PostScript reference manual (by Adobe Press) to no
avail.  A problem I have is that MacDraw seems to use abreviated macro names
for all the ordinary PostScript instructions, maybe even using some custom
macros to do fancy things.  As such, I have a hard time figuring out what
is going on.  Is there anywhere that the MacDraw dialect of PostScript is
documented?  Do all Macintosh applications abreviate in the same fashion?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Julian Watkins  [TRW - Data Systems Lab]

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