Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Word/Embedded Postscript Question
Message-ID: <4798@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 15:43:11 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <1839@randvax.UUCP> jhenry@rand-unix.UUCP (Jim Henry) writes:
>
>Another way to handle EPS in Word is to use a form of PICT file that
>contains PostScript.  I believe that Apple developed and is promoting the
>use of this format and that they call it Position-Independent PostScript.
> ...
>The downside is that I don't know if anything other than Illustrator '88
>knows how to make this type of PostScript and I do know that several
>applications, including Superpaint and MacDraw II, don't know how to read
>these things.  But it is real slick for moving from Illustrator to Word.

Yes. I came across this accidentally but didn't realize it was a supported
format. In using Curator (a program for managing pictures in a wide variety
of formats -- PICT, Mac EPS, IBM EPS, etc.) to convert an Illustrator file
to PICT, I found an option to "save Postscript" as well. This gave me much
better results than just saving the PICT (which resulted in a really crude
bitmap). Curator is from Solutions International (related to, but not the
same as, Solutions Inc., which produces SmartScrap). Recommended.
(BTW, it's a DA so you can find and convert pictures from within Word.)

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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