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- From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.062830.2388@prim>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 06:28:30 GMT
- References: <Bt378M.JMA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug17.164823.25311@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.
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- In article <1992Aug17.164823.25311@leland.Stanford.EDU> spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu writes:
- >
- >With Object-Linking coming up in 3.0, does anyone know
- >whether it'll be possible to link an image of a Table in,
- >say, Improv, to, say, a WP document? This strikes me as a
- >much better solution than to have each WP package try to do
- >tables, since most tables are originally created in
- >spreadsheets anyway.
- >
-
- If I understand it correctly, object-linking requires some support from the
- applications themselves. Since there are no plans for new versions of
- Improv and WP, then it won't work. Also they will also almost certainly need
- to support the feature as an extension to their document format - RTF has
- been extended to support links. Now if you'd suggested an image of a
- Table in, say, Mesa linked into a PasteUp document then it would probably be
- a different kettle of fish. :-)
-
- You can cut and paste the table postscript from Improv to WP, but that will
- still only give you fairly simple tables which is not what Jeff was after.
-
- Dave Griffiths
-