pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) (02/20/91)
Let me see if I understand this situation. I use Designer to export *.drw files as *.eps files. Along with each *.eps file is created a *.ps and *.tif files. Designer also has an option to export *.eps files 'without' tif preview. I have installed epsimp.flt for Winword. I can insert an *.eps file and see it, stretch it, ..., as long as the *.ps and *.tif files are present. Winword does not draw postscript but can display tiff images. Is this correct? I can't cut and paste the actual line from winword, but an inserted picture pic1.eps has direct references to pic1.ps and pic1.tif in the text representing the field. As a side note: It appears that winword "caches" picture information or something. At times, when I delete the line containing the reference to an inserted picture, and then I re-insert a picture (modified) with the same name, I get a "file in use or busy or something" error. If I close the file and reopen it, I can then re-insert the picture?? Along the same lines, while I am at it, if I create a new picture and overwrite a picture, then when I open a *.doc file which references the picture, it is not updated (similar scenario to the above paragraph). In fact, it seems that the picture ends up loosing some lines in it. !!!!!!!!@#@# (I still think wfw is great!) (just get the bugs out) /*----------- Thanks in advance... --------------------------------------+ | Peter C. Bahrs | | The USL-NASA Project | | Center For Advanced Computer Studies INET: pcb@swamp.cacs.usl.edu | | 2 Rex Street | | University of Southwestern Louisiana ...!uunet!dalsqnt!gator!pcb | | Lafayette, LA 70504 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (02/22/91)
In article <25554@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes: |Let me see if I understand this situation. I use Designer to export |*.drw files as *.eps files. Along with each *.eps file is created |a *.ps and *.tif files. Designer also has an option to export *.eps |files 'without' tif preview. I use Designer and W4W also. Tried EPS. For a while it seemed like the best choice. Most of the other formats had big problems with text. But W4W 1.1 doesn't really handle EPS very well. It seems to be very confused about size, among other things. When I Insert Picture an EPS file, it displays much bigger than it prints. I am using HP-GL now (Designer likes to call it .HP and W4W insists on it being .HGL, sigh) and although it is not perfect, it is better. If MS wants to send me a patch for EPS, I'd be very grateful, since EPS is essentially unusable for me right now. Better yet, why doesn't MS have a draw program? Surely it wouldn't be too hard for them? Things like one program using .HP and another using .HGL are stupid. Phil Ngai 901 Thompson Pl, MS #45 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 |I have installed epsimp.flt for Winword. I can insert an *.eps file |and see it, stretch it, ..., as long as the *.ps and *.tif files |are present. | |Winword does not draw postscript but can display tiff images. Is this |correct? I can't cut and paste the actual line from winword, but an |inserted picture pic1.eps has direct references to pic1.ps and pic1.tif |in the text representing the field. That was my conclusion also. In addition, I think it is the W4W macro that creates a .ps and .tif file from the .eps file. -- It is time for California farmers to share in the water shortages that the cities have endured for 5 years.
phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (02/23/91)
I got a suggestion to use TIF instead of HPGL. With ATM the fonts come out nicely. Thanks, Andrew! -- Save water! Use disposable diapers.
oivindt@ulrik.uio.no (Oivind Toien) (02/23/91)
.. > too hard for them? Things like one program using .HP and another using > .HGL are stupid. You can change the default extensions in the WWfilters section of WIN.INI. -- Oivind Toien <oivindt@ulrik.uio.no> Div. of General Physiology, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Oslo P.O. Box 1051, N-0316 Oslo 3, NORWAY Phone+47-2-454732 Fax+47-2-454726