gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (05/05/89)
Question: What is the big deal with Word 4.0? I haven't heard anyone
praising any new features in this word processor. I get the
impression that without Superpaint, NOTHING IS NEW. Right now, here
are the only features I'm really looking for:
0. A magnification mode for entering 11-point times font.
1. Better equation handling / rendering
2. The ability to set default sub/super scripts
3. Bug fixes
4. Faster file saves
5. Fast text searching
6. Styles that can be applied to individual characters
7. Some advanced graphics / postscript support. In other words,
if sophisticated figures are pasted into MS-Word like some MacDraw-II
figures, information is lost and the rendering is ugly.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliesfozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) (05/11/89)
In article <8400103@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >7. Some advanced graphics / postscript support. In other words, > if sophisticated figures are pasted into MS-Word like some MacDraw-II > figures, information is lost and the rendering is ugly. > > Does anyone know how to paste full-postscript-resolution drawings from Illustrator or FreeHand into Word (3 or 4)? For my uses, this is the only reason I can't just throw out PageMaker. Technical documents and manuals are MUCH easier to produce in Word and Illustrator and FreeHand are by far the best tecnical drawing packages - so why cant they get together in some easy way? ======================================================================== Richard Fozzard University of Colorado "Serendipity empowers" fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (05/11/89)
In article <8737@boulder.Colorado.EDU> fozzard@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Richard Fozzard) writes: >Does anyone know how to paste full-postscript-resolution drawings from >Illustrator or FreeHand into Word (3 or 4)? For my uses, this is the >only reason I can't just throw out PageMaker. > >Technical documents and >manuals are MUCH easier to produce in Word and Illustrator and FreeHand >are by far the best tecnical drawing packages - so why cant they get >together in some easy way? It's a little publicised fact (at least, it took me a long time to find out about it :-) that PICT objects can contain embedded PostScript (I think there's a name for this; it's not EPSF, though). Anyway, Word will accept this type of object and display the PICT on the screen but print the PS. Now, you just have to find drawing packages that produce this kind of object. Off-hand, I don't know of any. However, The Curator (from Solutions International) is a handy DA which converts numerous picture formats. It will convert an Illustrator image into this kind of PICT. I use it to put illustrations into Word, but be forewarned, it slows the scrolling rate to a crawl. (E.g., it takes about two minutes! to scroll past one of my diagrams -- about 1/4 page -- in one of my Word files. I can't explain it, esp. since XPress, for example, doesn't suffer.) -- Frank Kolnick, consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/12/89)
>Does anyone know how to paste full-postscript-resolution drawings from >Illustrator or FreeHand into Word (3 or 4)? For my uses, this is the >only reason I can't just throw out PageMaker. Go into the drawing program of your choice. Select the document. Hold down the option key and select "copy" from the menu. This copies the drawing to the clipboard in the embedded postscript flavor of PICT. Then go into Word and select paste. It'll show up as a PICT drawing on the screen, but print using the embedded postscript in the PICT. I use this with my letterhead, created in Freehand2. Very nice. Chuq Von Rospach =|= Editor,OtherRealms =|= Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com =|= CI$: 73317,635 =|= AppleLink: CHUQ [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.] Bookends. What a wonderful thought.