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Article #7618MS-Word 4.0 Bug?
From: gillies
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 17:40
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 17:40
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I am trying to print some postscript i an MS-Word 4.0 picture frame.
The following is formatted in "PostScript" style, according to the
manual's instructions:
------------------- cut here -----------------
.pic.
blah blah blah postscript
[]
[]
------------------- cut here -----------------
^
| 2 picture frames, in normal style.
Well, when I used the word ".pic." to precede my postscript, MS-Word
eats the postscript and puts nothing in the laserwriter file (I
checked). After some head-scratching, I figured there must have been a
misspelling in the manual, so I used the word ".pict." to precede my
postscript. Now MS-Word puts the postscript into the file correctly,
but then the printer dies, saying:
"Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: .pict."
What is the problem? Is this part of Word 4.0 simply broken
(ohmygosh, a bug in word 4.0! never!) Is there a workaround?
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies
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