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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Re: A Word/Embedded Postscript Question
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Date: 11 Dec 88 18:44:05 GMT
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In article <81051@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
<>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:
<
<>My question is this: Is there a way to do this using embedded postscript?
<
<Yeah. If you put the following piece of postscript in the header of the
<document, choose Shift-Style from the menu and select the 'postscript'
<style, it'll print a box around the printing portion of each page. You can
<then use a footer to put the class name on the page as well.
<
<	.page. wp$box stroke
<Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

I just tried this and it hung my system. There might be some other page
setting/margin size requirements.  Just before trying the postscript
method, I tried the full page header method suggested in "Inside WORD"
(January 1988 issue).

Though Chuq's method is much simpler, I suspect that it draws a single line
box. If your professor wants more variety (any of the box formats like
double, shadow, or thick), or if the postscript method doesn't work, you 
can try the following.

1. Set your top margin to -1 (or minus whatever). This is an absolute 
   setting, not a minus margin.

2. Create a header that is a full-page box. Make sure it starts higher than
   the margin (e.g., the default .5 is nice) using Format Section to adjust
   if necessary.

3. Move the left and right margins of the header out beyond the margins by
   dragging. The idea is to make the box wider than the text. 

4. Press Shift-Return enough times to fill a page. You'll have to do a 
   little trial and error the first time. You can see the effect in 
   Page Preview.

Basically, what you're doing is allowing the header and text to occupy the
same space by setting the top margin to minus x. The set of shift-returns
makes one paragraph which you format with the desired box style. To make it
easier, I'd set up a blank document with that header already defined. Then
do a Save As.. as soon as you open it and make one change.

Also, once you move the left margin to the left of zero on the ruler, you
don't see the leftmost text when you open the header window later. Just
press home (on an extended keyboard) or the appropriate numeral on the
numeric keypad (8?).

Of course, you can add the course title/page no. information inside the box
as part of the header, or make the box smaller and put this information in
a footer.

Shirley Kehr