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Word 4.0 DOES supports fractional line widths on laserwriters.  I
believe that some of the problem is also the fault of Claris.  Claris
does not export what it prints; it has a custom postscript generator
so that printing from (for instance) macdraw II looks better than
exporting something word and printing it through word.

On the other hand, I have received a fair share of grief from word,
and have come to live by the following rules:

(1) Align your graphics at 4x resolution in macdraw II.  This will
very likely make it print correctly on a postscript or quickdraw laser
printer.  It will most certainly fail to work correctly on a quickdraw
device.  It will certainly look ugly on your screen at 1x resolution
(in word).  Do not worry.

(2) Paste the graphics into word twice (this is a tip from microsoft
support).  Paste it in the first time, then "copy as picture", and
paste it again.  This forces word to reinterpret/reprocess the
graphic.  I believe that sometimes this causes the graphic to print
better.

(3) Graphics created with Canvas almost never give me trouble in word,
however, canvas 2.0 once created a graphic that would always crash our
printer (from word).  I have given up on canvas for that reason.


Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL

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