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Article #1458Re: Graphic file translation problem
From: Chris Titterington
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <6eoojm$om9$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, A.C.Pugh@shef.ac.uk (andy the pugh) wrote: >In article <350EEE89.37@parkfish.demon.co.uk>, the moving finger of >steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk wrote... > >>Andy, >> are you sure about Word 6 (PC) having a filter, 'cos that is the >package >>my colleague originally tried to import this file into. > >Under Insert-Picture one of the formats in the drop down selection is >'Micrografx Design/Draw .drw' which sounds like what you want. I should >stress that this is on a PC though, and I have not confirmed its >functionality. > > >-- >ap > It is entirely possible that if you have a legal installation of a Micrografx product on your machine then it could add filters to allow other applications (e.g. Word) to read files in the proprietary formats used by the product. Trying to read a .drw file into Word on a machine that has a legal Micrografx license is not a good test of whether Word will always read .drw files Chris. T.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,c849fea08b3a3f20 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: chris@christ.demon.co.uk (Chris Titterington) Subject: Re: Graphic file translation problem Date: 1998/03/20 Message-ID: <B13807359668692DF@fns-cngf.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 335916137 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: fns-cngf.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.17] References: <350C2ADD.3C1A@parkfish.demon.co.uk> <6ejq0r$48i$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <350EEE89.37@parkfish.demon.co.uk> <6eoojm$om9$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Organization: None Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac