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MSWord PS-graphics help, please

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From: Ken Leonard
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 14:31
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less sure of how to fix it.
The basic problem is that "linked" postscript graphics files don't end up
in the right place on the page.
The system is:  MSWord 5.0 (PC), QMS-PS-810 printer, AutoSketch drawing
program.
I can run AutoSketch with direct printer output and get great pictures.
I can run AutoSketch with file output, DOS-copy the file to the printer, and
get exactly the same great pictures.
I can run MSWord with direct printer output (_text_ only) and get neat 
documents.
I can run MSWord with file ouput, DOS-copy the file to the printer, and get
exactly the same neat documents.
_BUT_...  When I do MSWord "LibraryLinkGraphics" with the file output of
AutoSketch, the pictures come out just where AutoSketch by itself would
have put them on the page:  MSWord just _REFUSES_ to set/reset a/the
"local origin" [??is that close to the right terminology??] to the
lower left corner [I think that's the required 0,0 point] of the area
assigned for the picture.
MicroSoft tech support is (as usual, from my experience with several things)
absolutely _NO_ help--they don't even seem to understand that there _IS_ a
problem (even if the problem is just that I'm overlooking something obvious
like RTFM, which may be the case).
I have written an MSWord macro which looks at the LLG setup in my document
and then munges my PostScript file [adds <translate>, mostly] so that
it gets to the right place on the page, but it's a hard way to do it
(and slow when a typical document has 20 or so drawings).
Can anyone here help?  Can I somehow modify MSWord's .PRD file for the printer
so that it will setup a picture origin in the right place?  Or any other
solution?  Or have I missed an RTFM?
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thanx and regardz,
Ken Leonard
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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
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Subject: MSWord PS-graphics help, please
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Date: 3 Oct 89 14:31:55 GMT
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Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory
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