david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) (10/06/87)
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?
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BITNET/OTHER: david%uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu@rutgers.edudplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt) (10/07/87)
One approach would be to use the ImageSaver "printer", which comes as part of the Glue package. ImageSaver is a printer driver that you can install in your system folder and select with Chooser; it accepts QuickDraw printer instructions from your application and simply writes them to a disk file. The resulting file of QuickDraw PICTs can be sent, and then viewed or hardcopied with Glue utilities. [It can also be send in a "package" via MCI Mail, if you use Desktop Express. What's even more fun is that you can instruct MCI Mail to laserprint a hardcopy and deliver via overnight courier or standard snail-mail; thus, you can email nicely-formatted Mac output to people who don't have Macs]. I believe that the entire Glue package (including ImageSaver, and Glue-file viewers and hardcopiers) is available for about $50 retail, and probably less on-the-street. Cheaper than Word 3.01, although not free.
elw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu (Ellen Walker) (10/09/87)
Why not send out the PostScript of your page? There is an application out
there (paintPS? printPS?) that will print an arbitrary PostSript file to
your printer, and I don't think it's too expensive (maybe public domain
even).
To get the PS, I think you print with the option key down to get the regular
Apple print dialog instead of Microsoft's, then after you click OK, hold
cmd-F down to get a PostScript file (or cmd-K if you need the laserprep as
well).
Good luck,
Ellen Walker
Carnegie-Mellon University
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