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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: A Word/Embedded Postscript Question
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Date: 14 Dec 88 16:32:36 GMT
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>Great idea, Chuq -- but could you answer what is probably a stupid
>question for me?

Not a stupid question at all. The operation is straightforward, but not
necessarily intuitive. 

>Haven't figured out how to get Word to grok EPS.

Here's what I do:

o Create the drawing. I use Aldus Freehand, for what it's worth. The same 
	is basically true for Illustrator.

o export the file, creating the EPSF version.

o using your handy finder DA (DiskTop, et al), convert the file type from
	EPSF to TEXT. (this is the non-intuitive part).

o Go into Word. Open the EPSF file, which Word will now read as a text file,
	giving you the postscript while leaving the graphic parts behind.

o Convert the text to style Postscript.

o Print.

Note: you don't have full EPSF suppot in this. You don't see the graphic on
the screen, can't crop or resize or any of tose goodies. What you're doing
is loading the postscript, which happens to be an EPSF file, but it's dealt
with just like a normal piece of PS. I use this all the time for stuff like
my letterhead. Works just fine.



Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

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