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From: wn0e+@andrew.cmu.edu (William Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PageStream Quirk
Message-ID: <4ZsphF_00WB44GWn1A@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 03:24:01 GMT
Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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writes
>Here's a little quirk about Pagestream and text importing.  Recently, I
>used excellence! to create a resume.  Then I imported it into Pagestream.
>Version 1.8 has an excellence! import module.  This worked ok, but some
>things seemed a bit strange.  Changing the left and right box borders
>didn't seem to "de-word-wrap" things.  I chalked it up to a bug until I
>tried to change the top and bottom borders.  The text suddenly became
>elongated as if it were graphics.  The solution was to Edit/Copy the
>text and paste it on a new page and then delete the original.  Now, I
>did save the document in excellence format and not text format.  This
>may be a better solution for long documents.


Actually, there is no quirk here at all.  This is what happens if one
just positions the text cursor on the screen and imports a text
document.  I.e. the text is read in as a TEXT OBJEXT, just as if you
had typed it in instead of importing.  Because of the problem with
resizing the text box, and the funny wrapping, I do not recomend this 
procedure.

The correct way to do the import is to  first create a TEXT COLUMN,
position the cursor within the column, then import the text.(in
excellence! format is fine)

Bill Nichols
Nichols@cmphys.bitnet
william.nichols@andrew.cmu.edu

PageStream 1.8 really makes my deskjet sing.