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reading EPS and TIFF files in Word 5 under Executor 1.2.1
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.