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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 4.0
Keywords: word graphics dtp
Message-ID: <6600@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 20:15:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.6600
References: <802@wheaton.UUCP> <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Organization: Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1419@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes:
>In article <802@wheaton.UUCP> beng@wheaton.UUCP (Ben Greenwald) writes:
>>I saw a beta version of Word 4.0 at the MacFest here in Chicago on 10-6.
>>	2.  being able to hard place graphics
>>	3.  automatic text flow around graphics.
>
>Is there any background graphics capability?  Is there any built in
>graphics capability like I've seen in fullwrite?  I'm a word person,
>but I often need to stick simple graphics around text, or putting a 
>grey background behind a table, and going to Pagemaker to do it is a pain.

I think there're giving out SuperPaint to make up for the fact that
there is no built in graphics stuff, except for boxes around paragraphs.
You memtioned greys behind tables--here is a trick I learned from playing
around:
Use a PS graphics program like Freehand to make a grey box the size of
a page. (I used 2% grey)
Save this as EPS file. Use some tool to change its type to TEXT.
Open it in Word (I use 3.01), select all of the text, and open up
the styles dialog box. Type in 'Postscript'. Now you have a grey page,
but what good is it? As it turns out, Word lets you clip embedded PS to
the bounds of a paragraph by typing '.para' on a line just ahead of the
paragraph you want the image clipped to. (I think it's that, this is
from memory--at any rate, its in the manual in the PS section). 
If I put the PS (describing the grey page) in the header, then whenever
I want a paragraph to have a grey background, I put the magic word before
it, and it works. It even works with side-by-side paragraphs. You could
even make various graphics into glossary entries, and have all kinds of
effects handy, like nice borders around pages, etc.
Hope this was more or less clear...

>Paul Meyer
>MIT
Ron Beloin
Ron Beloin, Ecosystems Research Center, Corson Hall, Cornell, Ithaca,NY 14853
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