[comp.sys.mac.apps] SuperPaint graphics and Word

kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) (01/15/91)

" THE SCENARIO: Create an object-oriented graphic in Superpaint. Paste it into
" Word. Cut the graphic from Word, paste it back into Superpaint. The object
" alignments are all screwed up!
"
" THE QUESTION: Whodunnit? How can it be fixed?

Keep a separate copy of the graphic and paste link it into Word. Then 
when you want to revise the graphic, use command-comma. This opens 
SuperPaint if necessary, opens the correct document, and selects the
graphic so you can start working on it. Indispensible for me.

" I remember this being discussed some time back, but I can't remember the
" resolution.

It used to be worse. Everything few apart so far that you had to add pages
to get all the pieces back together. Now the drawn objects seem to stay
together and the text stays together, but the text and drawn objects are
out of alignment.

One or the other of the companies claimed to fix the problem, but this was
the only improvement I saw. Word is at 2.0b on my system and SuperPaint is
at 2.0a. 

I hope SuperPaint 3 is much better than 2.0 or with any luck maybe Canvas
will start working with Word again. I haven't found one drawing program that 
works reliably in Word (QuickDraw).

Shirley Kehr