pff@thumper.bellcore.com (Peter Ferris) (02/24/89)
Greetings, I've been given the task of making the company logo available to many users, via Microsoft Word 3.02. I've decided that the best way to do this is to write the logo in PS and dump it into Word with a "style" of "PostScript". So far so good. Question: Since this will be used by Joe & Jane User, is there a way to "protect" the logo from being 'over written' by the users text. Word will give the user the full (more or less) page to use. There's no way <I> know of to force the user to avoid writing in the top 1 1/8" (the user would have to go to his/her 'Page Setup' and change it). Is there a way in PostScript to say something like, "... and when you're done with all of that, protect the top-most 1 1/8" of paper..."? There may be a way within Word to do it, but I'm not that familiar with Word to know. Mac & PS problem #2: In developing the above logo, I noticed that my PS development tool (LaserTalk, Emerald City Software - VERY nice! Good job, Randy!) printed things just fine. But when I shoved the code into Word with the PostScript "style", things were a little "off"! Everything printed ok, just moved over and down about an inch! Very annoying when doing something like letterhead! Anyhow, at my wits end, I called Microsoft. The tech I talked to IMMEDIATELY knew the solution: Disable "Background Printing" (turn it off)! The tech could not explain it at all. Just said she "knew" it'd work, and it did! I think I have an above average Mac-user understanding of the machine & software but can't think of a good (sane) explanation for that. Any takers? Any solution visible on the horizon? System 7.0 did you say? :-) I really appreciate any and all help here! E-mail would be appreciated, but if you'd rather just post to the group, that's fine, I'll be reading it for the next couple of weeks. Many thanks & Best Regards, Pete Ferris Bell Communications Research pff@thumper.bellcore.com Disclaimer: As may be obvious, I am a neophyte PS programmer - we all had to start somewhere, even if it's lifting examples out of the RGB Books (Red, Green, Blue - Adobe).