dlt%computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK (David Tennenhouse) (05/10/88)
Does anybody have a summary of the new features available in WP 5.0?
In particular:
Does it do a better job of laserwriter inter-word spacing than
WP 4.2 does?
Is there a greater selection of laserwriter fonts?
Can postscript files (diagrams) be merged into a document
without great wizardry?
Any other comments/references would be appreciated.
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with a subject line of helpdlt%computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK (David Tennenhouse) (07/20/88)
I am just switching over to WP 5.0 which looks to be a well thought
out compromise between a word processing package suited to authors
and a desktop publishing system....just a few little problems and I
would greatly appreciate some help or a referral to an alternate
newsgroup...and yes, I know about the wordperfect helpline.
1. WP 5.0 is supposed to support the inclusion of postscript files
within graphics windows. The manual says little about the format of
the postscript file other than it being encapsulated postscript and
having the correct %! comment at the top. I have tried to include
lots of different variants (almost null files) but WP keeps complaining
about the format. Does anybody know the magic incantation? If so,
could you please forward a copy of a skeleton postscript file that works?
Is the filename sacred?
2. Is there an easy way to get MacDraw to produce a postscript file
that I can transfer to my IBM and include in my WP document? I am not
a MAC user and as near as I can tell the "default" laserwriter driver
doesn't have a "print to file" option. We do have a pagemaker driver
with that option but I haven't tried using it yet.
3. Either WP 5.0 or my AT clone (an Olivetti M280) has a bug that
appears when saving files using the Text IN/OUT (DOS) feature. The
second time you save a file the file length gets set to zero. Funny
things happen thereafter and if you really persist disk clusters go
amissing. I can live with this one but thought I would pass on a
warning.
Thanks for any help/referrals.
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with a subject line of helpcjl@uncecs.edu (Charles Lord) (07/20/88)
As to the Text I/O *AND* saving in older WP4.2 version, the
following occurs (even according to WP Corp themselves):
The data IS saved, but the directory (FAT?) is not updated until
you LEAVE WP. If you save a text or 4.2 file to floppy for an
associate while they stand over you then go back to your application
while they scurry off with the disk (for the uninformed this is the
WALKNET LAN protocol), they will look at a disk with ZERO bytes on that
file. The data is there, but DOS won't find it. IF you had LEFT WP
before removing disk then removed the disk, you would have your file
intact... WP customer reps say that an update is coming "any day now"
and all will get it at the same time. Personally, my company bought
one update, found that bug, and decided that Manuscript wasn't that bad
after all.
--
Charles Lord cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet
Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet
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with a subject line of helpepub@cariboo.bcc.cdn (Troy Welch) (07/21/88)
It sounds to me that the subject of postscript has recieved fairly
short thrift in the WP manual. The postscript format, or the
encapsulated postscript format (which is what WP probably wants) has
a bit more to it than that. There is a variety of information on
PS file formats available from the Adobe Postscript File Server
(adobe!ps-file-server@sun.com), send the usual one line message of
"help" for more info.
The only way I know of to send postscript to diskfile on a Mac is
through an obscure part of the print command in Aldus Pagemaker.
If you hold down the command and option keys when you hit the
"print" button in the print dialogue box, you will get another
undocumented dialogue box offering you print to disk options.
I'm not sure, but I think this is a part of the Aldus Prep print
driver. I have tried, unsuccessfully to print to disk from
Cricket Draw and a couple of other packages, and Pagemaker seems
to be the only one this works in.
Troy Welch
Electronic Publishing Technician
Cariboo College
Kamloops, B.C.
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with a subject line of helpjchester@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Henry S. Horn) (07/23/88)
Anybody using WP 5.0 with a PostScript printer (in the U.S. at least, where
you can use WPCorp's toll-free number) probably should call them and ask
for "Printer Disk 6." It has further printer support. It's also free.
--Jon Radel
jonradel%icecream.princeton.edu@princeton.edu
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