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- From: pwatson@lincoln.gpsemi.com (Philip Watson)
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- Subject: Re: Impression file format
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:21:41 GMT
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- In article <921215002947@avistic.demon.co.uk> Lorcan Mongey,
- lorcan@avistic.demon.co.uk writes:
- >In article <1992Dec8.112419.19538@aston.ac.uk> davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk
- >(Mik Davis) writes:
- >
- >> Actually, this is getting to be a rather acute problem. Does anyone
- >> know of any way of transferring files from an arch. to a Mac running
- >> MSWord whilst retaining at least some of the layout.
- >
- >Have you tried the Impression Business Suppliment? I believe it does
- >import/export in various PC-world formats.
-
- Looking at the entry for the Impression Business Supplement in the
- Latest Acorn Product directory (Page 71) It says...
-
- "The Impresseion Business Supplement includes
- utilities for mail-merging, Expression-PS, and
- loader modules for several PC and Macintosh
- applications.
- .
- .
- .
- The loader modules are for PC and Macintosh applications,
- including Microsoft Word (RTF), WordPerfect 4.2,
- WordStar 4.0, and PipeDream. They enable files from these
- applications to be loaded directly into Impression,
- complete with many text attributes (such as bold, underline,
- font face/size)."
-
- I think the key phrases are:-
- 1) "loaded", no mention of export.
- 2) "many text attributes", not full support for RTF etc
-
- I guess the latter would legitimately be difficult to expect.
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