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In article <10871@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> lyons@scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons) writes:
>I am generating screen dumps of windows in a unix application in eps for
>inclusion in documentation. The documentation is being done in Word 4
>(soon
>Word 5, I guess) on a Macintosh. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to
>put the eps figures into the document, though. Word 5's manual has a
>section on importing eps figures, but it involves reading in the eps and
>setting its style to PostScript (a built in style); this seems pretty
>cumbersome to me (typically MicroSoft) and would not seem to allow one to
>preview pages, or position the figures easily.

Word 5 might be your best solution here. It will allow you to import a picture
from a text EPS file; all it shows on-screen is a placeholder. The drawback is
that you won't be able to save the file to Word for Windows and have the
graphics preserved (sometimes being a Microsoft "gamma-tester" -- one who does
testing after buying the software -- can get tiresome, especially when you
have to deliver documents on both platforms).

Another option is to forego the use of EPS altogether. I assume that you are
working with X screen dumps. I've written a utility to convert XWD dumps into 
TIFF 4.0 files -- e-mail me at the above address to get it.  There are also 
packages in the MIT contrib section that do the same thing; they tend to be
very multi-functional, however.

-kdg