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From: Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Postscript graphics in documents
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Date: 20 Jul 88 07:56:02 GMT
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In regards to putting Postscript X-Rays into documents:

PageMake 2.0 and more than likely 3.0 will place postscript text as a box the
size of the outside border.  If you use Tiff you can actually see the picture,
but in Postscript all you get is a box that says something like the name of
the picture, and its creator and maybe something else (been a long time since
I placed a postscript file).  In PageMaker it works great.  Really a sight to
behold.  The only thing is that you can't wrap text around it (remember, it is
only a box to PageMaker), which is what makes TIFF slightly better.  Also,
there is a program (I can remember the name off hand, but I do have it, reply
if you want me to upload it (It is huge if I remember correctly though)) that
will take any picture type file as imput (TIFF, PostScript, PICT, and I think
object and then will save it as any other type).  I haven't used it more than
once to see if it really worked, but it might serve your purpose to convert
the PostScript to TIFF or you can just skip it all together and print it in
PageMaker.

Hope you work something out.

Mark Cookson