Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What's in Word 4.0?
Message-ID: <4997@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 14:59:11 GMT
References: <8400103@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <8737@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <8737@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes:
>Does anyone know how to paste full-postscript-resolution drawings from
>Illustrator or FreeHand into Word (3 or 4)? For my uses, this is the
>only reason I can't just throw out PageMaker. 
>
>Technical documents and
>manuals are MUCH easier to produce in Word and Illustrator and FreeHand
>are by far the best tecnical drawing packages - so why cant they get
>together in some easy way?

It's a little publicised fact (at least, it took me a long time to find out
about it :-) that PICT objects can contain embedded PostScript (I think
there's a name for this; it's not EPSF, though). Anyway, Word will accept
this type of object and display the PICT on the screen but print the PS.
Now, you just have to find drawing packages that produce this kind of
object. Off-hand, I don't know of any. However, The Curator (from
Solutions International) is a handy DA which converts numerous picture
formats. It will convert an Illustrator image into this kind of PICT.
I use it to put illustrations into Word, but be forewarned, it slows the
scrolling rate to a crawl. (E.g., it takes about two minutes! to scroll
past one of my diagrams -- about 1/4 page -- in one of my Word files.
I can't explain it, esp. since XPress, for example, doesn't suffer.)


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
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