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Article #39109PS dumps -> Word
From: rudolph
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 00:23
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 00:23
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After having to resort to cutting and pasting with real glue recently, I decided to write a Unix utility to solve the problem of including PostScript (in particular, X windows screen dumps translated to ps by xpr) in Word files. My standard procedure (when not including ps) is to generate a ps file in Word (with the f key), upload to the Sun, and print out on our DEC laserprinter (LNR03 ??). When I wanted to include the screen dumps, I downloaded the ps to my mac and pasted it into Word in PostScript style. Word immediately became a pain in the a-s to use, because every time I scrolled by the hidden postscript (about 80K), it grinded to a halt while reading the stuff off disk. Even with only one 80K dump, it was very frustrating to use. With any more, it would be completely unusable. Aside from that, the picture didn't even come out right (I just got a pageful of errors from the printer). I would like to write a program to allow me to combine the Word ps output with the dumps after uploading it to the Sun. Before I do, I wanted to know if anyone has a good solution to this problem already. Please let me know if you've got one. David Rudolph rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu University of Illinois
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