Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: A Word/Embedded Postscript Question Message-ID: <1433@aucs.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 12:23:13 GMT Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 46 A prof here uses Word for making transparencies. He wants to put a border around the entire page with the course indicated in the lower right. A scale model might look something like this: ----------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------- CS3036 --- I know FullWrite can do this very simply using a background picture. The only ways I can think of doing it in Word all seem cludgy. I tried several things that work. I recommended that he make a drawing representing the border and paste it at the beginning of each page, making it and the other paragraphs on a page "side-by-side". This works, but the process has to be repeated for each page. I tried to put the drawing in the header/footer, but doing so made Word think the footer took up the entire page. There was no way to "overlay" a footer or header with the text on a page, at least not that I could find. My question is this: Is there a way to do this using embedded postscript? Ideally, it would be nice if the border would only have to be specified once, so some solution using the header/footer would be preferred. Note: I do not have any Postscript references. Actually, I told him he should get something like PowerPoint but he's not interested. So, it's got to be Word. If any Word wizards out there know of a solution, it would be much appreciated. You can post your answers to the net but I would appreciate direct replies as only about 70% of the net traffic makes it to our site. Thanks! -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU