gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (11/12/89)
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
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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
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies