kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) (10/03/89)
less sure of how to fix it. The basic problem is that "linked" postscript graphics files don't end up in the right place on the page. The system is: MSWord 5.0 (PC), QMS-PS-810 printer, AutoSketch drawing program. I can run AutoSketch with direct printer output and get great pictures. I can run AutoSketch with file output, DOS-copy the file to the printer, and get exactly the same great pictures. I can run MSWord with direct printer output (_text_ only) and get neat documents. I can run MSWord with file ouput, DOS-copy the file to the printer, and get exactly the same neat documents. _BUT_... When I do MSWord "LibraryLinkGraphics" with the file output of AutoSketch, the pictures come out just where AutoSketch by itself would have put them on the page: MSWord just _REFUSES_ to set/reset a/the "local origin" [??is that close to the right terminology??] to the lower left corner [I think that's the required 0,0 point] of the area assigned for the picture. MicroSoft tech support is (as usual, from my experience with several things) absolutely _NO_ help--they don't even seem to understand that there _IS_ a problem (even if the problem is just that I'm overlooking something obvious like RTFM, which may be the case). I have written an MSWord macro which looks at the LLG setup in my document and then munges my PostScript file [adds <translate>, mostly] so that it gets to the right place on the page, but it's a hard way to do it (and slow when a typical document has 20 or so drawings). Can anyone here help? Can I somehow modify MSWord's .PRD file for the printer so that it will setup a picture origin in the right place? Or any other solution? Or have I missed an RTFM? --------------- thanx and regardz, Ken Leonard