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Article #1145MSWord PS-graphics help, please
From: Ken Leonard
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1989 14:31
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? --------------- thanx and regardz, Ken Leonard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: MSWord PS-graphics help, please Message-ID: <345@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 3 Oct 89 14:31:55 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 32