stuart@previous.ADS.COM (Stuart Crawford) (10/05/90)
I'm preparing a publication on the Macintosh (using PageMaker) and would like to make use of some figures generated on the NeXT. When I save my figures in encapsulated Postscript form and move them to the mac, I find that I cannot use them. Here are the symptoms: 1. When I try to place the figure in PageMaker, I get an error message telling me that the Postscript file name is longer than 128 characters. 2. When I try to place the figure in Adobe Illustrator, it looks nothing like the figure I created on the NeXT. When I save my figures in Tiff form, and try to use them on the mac, I find that I cannot. Here are the symptoms: 1. ImageStudio tells me that they are in an "unsupported bits per pixel format". 2. PageMaker tells me they are in an "unsupported format" Am I really going to have to grit my teeth and incorporate these figures with scissors and glue? I realize that using FrameMaker on the NeXT instead of PageMaker on the Mac is the simplest solution, but I don't have the bucks to acquire FrameMaker. Thanks in advance, Stuart --
olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Bob Olson) (10/06/90)
In article <STUART.90Oct5110743@previous.ADS.COM> stuart@previous.ADS.COM (Stuart Crawford) writes: > When I save my figures in Tiff form, and try to use them on the mac, I find > that I cannot. Here are the symptoms: > 1. ImageStudio tells me that they are in an "unsupported bits per pixel > format". > 2. PageMaker tells me they are in an "unsupported format" NeXT 2.0 has much enhanced TIFF file handling features. This alone may fix this problem. --bob Bob Olson University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Internet: rolson@uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!olson UIUC Campus Consultant NeXT mail: olson@fazer.champaign.il.us "You can't win a game of chess with an action figure!" AMA #522687 DoD #28