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- Dear Folks,
-
- I answered a question on the net that you may also be wondering about. The
- question was how to get EPS and TIFF images into a Word document. This will
- only work with Word 5 and only under Executor 1.2.1 (or greater):
-
-
-
- Dear Jagannatha and other interested folks,
-
- Although you can't directly "paste" TIFF or EPS images into Word running
- under Executor, you can save TIFF and EPS images to a file and then read
- the file into Word 5 running on Executor.
-
- [long pause while I look up the relevant section in our new manual...
- hmm... although EPS and TIFF are in our index, none of the references
- address this problem... let's skim the entire manual (it's only about
- 100 pages)...]
-
- I'm VERY embarrassed that this information isn't in our manual, but here's
- what you need to do:
-
- 1. Save the graphic to a file. If you're saving a TIFF file, be sure
- to save *without* an alpha-component.
-
- 2. Run Word 5 under Executor and position the cursor where you want the
- graphic to be placed.
-
- 3. Choose "Picture..." from the "Insert" menu.
-
- 4. Choose "All Files" from the "List Files of Type:" pop-up menu.
- NOTE: This step is needed because the file containing the graphic was
- created on the NeXT and hence the newly created file doesn't have
- a "type" associated with it. If you created a TIFF or EPS file from
- a program running under Executor, you could skip this step.
-
- 5. Select the file that contains the graphic and click on the "Insert"
- button.
-
- 6. Word 5 will now present you with a list of convertors that might be
- relevant for reading in this file. Pick "TIFF" or "EPS" as approrpriate.
- This step is necessary for the same reason that step 4 is.
-
- Your Graphic will now be embedded in your document in its original size.
- To resize, select the lower-right corner of the bounding box and hold down
- the shift key as you move the corner.
-
- TIFF images will be visible as images, although they'll be displayed on
- the screen in black and white, even though internally they're stored as
- (and will be printed as) gray scale.
-
- EPS graphics will only be visible as rectangles that have the filename in
- them. However, the graphic *will* be printed in PostScript when you print.
-
- By the way, our manual was written entirely in Word 5 under Executor 1.2.1,
- so anything that you see in it (we use both embedded TIFF and embedded EPS
- images) is something that you can do as well. No smoke, no mirrors.
-
- I apologize for the omission of this information in our manual. Posting
- to the net worked in this case, but I'd suggest first sending e-mail to
- questions@ardi.com, and if that doesn't work sending e-mail to the Executor
- mailing list ("executor@ictv.com" to join send e-mail to
- "executor-request@ictv.com").
-
- NOTE: We just discovered that Executor 1.2.1 doesn't work with the
- new ADB keyboards. We're frantically putting together a patch to
- remedy this and have been slightly remiss in answering e-mail sent
- to questions@ardi.com. Expect replies shortly. Since our ad in
- NeXTWORLD, we've been swamped with calls and orders. We'll be hiring
- another tech-support person or four in November and that too will
- help restore us to our normally fast replying selves.
-
-