info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/18/84)
Date: 17 May 1984 9:30:30 EDT (Thursday) From: Dick Kalagher <uw-beaver!kalagher@mitre> Subject: Neat Mac Application To: info-mac@sumex-aim The following is a clever application of the Mac that I learned from a friend. First he prepared a briefing using Macpaint to make most of his briefing charts. He then wrote a memo explaining each chart. The body of the memo consists of a number of paragraphs, each paragraph explaining a briefing chart. The neat thing was that in the left hand margin there was a one by one and a quarter inch version of the Macpaint briefing chart--not really readable as such but clear enough that one could easily flip to the full size chart attached to the memo. To do this, he used the "show page" option of Macpaint and saved the screen to disk using Shift-Command-3. He then made this screen a Macpaint document and selected the small screen and cut it into the scrapbook. Then he pasted five or six of these screens into another Macpaint document and schrunk them down to the appropriate size and lined them up down the left margin. He then printed out this page. Next he prepared the memo with Macwrite, leaving two and a half inch left margin. He then ran the paper with the macpaint screens back through the printer to print the memo. This is easier to do than to explain! And it looks very impressive. How about sharing some other interesting and not too obvious Mac applications?