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Re: MS-Word 4.0 Bug?

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From: gillies
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 01:40
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Re: MS-Word bug w/Postscript+Graphics Frames.

Sorry, false alarm.  It seems that MS-Word silently eats your
postscript if there isn't a graphics frame IN THE VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH
after the postscript data.  If the graphics frame is two paragraphs
later, then that's a no-no, and Word discards the postscript.

I wish it would say "Discarding Postscript -- no subsequent Graphics
Frame ", instead of doing it silently.

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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