david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) (10/12/87)
In article <918@uhccux.UUCP> I asked: >I've got a one-page Word 3.01 document with some fancy >formatting: side-by-side paragraph-graphics, boxes, bars, >and a MacDraw picture pasted in. I'd like to distribute >it on diskette for people to print on their own printers, >but obviously can't give out Word. It won't paste into >MacPaint or MacWrite properly, and can't be converted into >ASCII text. Any ideas? The suggestions came in basically two categories: 1) Use Glue; and 2) Distribute the PostScript source. Glue works very well, but for this application I'm not really interested in licensing the ImageViewer application to distribute with the document. I neglected to mention that my document was in landscape mode, but it turns out that the Glue-generated MacPaint image can't be read into MacPaint (or SuperPaint) properly. So my solution is to distribute: 1) the original Word document, in case the recipient has access to a system with Word; and 2) the postscript file, generated from Word with Command-F, and the (free) SendPS application which can be used if the recipient has access to a LaserWriter. Thanks all, for the help. -- David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351 INTERNET: david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu PLATO: david/p/hawaii UUCP: {ihnp4,uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!david BITNET/OTHER: david%uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu@rutgers.edu