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From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word question
Message-ID: <5293@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 20:35:03 GMT
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In article <1990Mar9.050345.12505@cec1.wustl.edu> jcb2647@cec1.wustl.edu (James Christopher Beard) writes:
>In article <5284@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
>>Is it possible to make Word print greyscale text?
>
>Yes, but "make" is the right word.  If you are outputting to a
>postscript device, there are a couple of ways to do it.  One is to
>create the text in Cricket Draw, which includes "Intensity" under
>"Text Attributes": you can set the intensity of the text to 50% or
>whatever and paste it into Word as a graphic. ...

I don't mind using a graphic every now and then, but not in this case.
I was hoping for something I could slip into a style, or at least a
glossary. (Someone suggested that setting a non-black colour in
the 'character' dialog would print gray on non-colour devices, but
that unfortunately isn't true.)  especially have no intention of
using Cricket Draw which, aside from being slow and prone to crash,
hasn't worked since I installed NFNTs on my system. (also, how many
other 5-year-old products are still stuck in version 1?)

>Another alternative is (ulp) writing a bit of PostScript code that
>places the gray text on the page in the place you want, and then
>applying the PostScript style to the code.  You won't see it in
>pictorial form at all on the screen, but if the code is correct it
>will print out.  Word comes with some sample documents that
>demonstrate this sort of thing.  

This seems to be the only real method (damn).


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
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