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From: rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: PS dumps -> Word
Message-ID: <8400088@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 89 00:23:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!rudolph    Mar  9 18:23:00 1989


After having to resort to cutting and pasting with real glue recently, I
decided to write a Unix utility to solve the problem of including PostScript
(in particular, X windows screen dumps translated to ps by xpr) in Word
files.  My standard procedure (when not including ps) is to generate a ps
file in Word (with the f key), upload to the Sun, and print out on our DEC
laserprinter (LNR03 ??).  When I wanted to include the screen dumps, I
downloaded the ps to my mac and pasted it into Word in PostScript style.  Word
immediately became a pain in the a-s to use, because every time I scrolled
by the hidden postscript (about 80K), it grinded to a halt while reading the
stuff off disk.  Even with only one 80K dump, it was very frustrating to
use.  With any more, it would be completely unusable.  Aside from that, the
picture didn't even come out right (I just got a pageful of errors from the
printer).  
I would like to write a program to allow me to combine the Word ps output
with the dumps after uploading it to the Sun.  Before I do, I wanted to know
if anyone has a good solution to this problem already.  Please let me know
if you've got one.

David Rudolph       rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois