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- From: apa@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Alan P Arnold)
- Subject: Word5 and Encapsulated PS picture problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.013712.5786@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Summary: Word5 and Encapsulated PS problem.
- Keywords: Word Postscript Encapsulated
- Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:37:12 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- I am preparing a set of lecture notes in which a complex
- diagram needs to appear several times in one chapter.
- The diagram was created in Mathematica and saved as an EPS
- file - about 450kb in size.
-
- I know that Word5 will import the EPS code (this works quite
- well) and I've even managed to get it to appear in a picture
- frame which can be moved about in page-preview mode, but....
- as there are 4 occurences of this picture in the document - each
- consisting of 450kb worth of hidden postscript code - the doc
- is unmanageably slow to manipulate on my MacII (9Mb, Sys7.x)
-
- Question>>>
-
- Can I have Word import the EPS code from another file from
- within each picture, so that only one 450kb copy needs to
- be kept?
-
- ie something like this:
-
- ....."Figure 1 follows: <<read PS code from filename.EPS >>
- Fig1 picture frame here (PS code starts with .pic. )
- lots of text
- Figure 2 follows <<read PS code from same filename.EPS>>
- Fig2 picture frame here
- lots of text
- Figure 3 follows etc.
-
- I suppose this is a type of Publish/Perish (sorry, Subscribe) function?
- I sure hope Word5 can do this because scrolling through the 1.6Mb
- chapter is *really* painful!
-
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- Alan Arnold | e-mail: apa@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
- Chem. Department,University College | voice : +61 6 268 8080
- Australian Defence Force Academy | fax : +61 6 268 8002
- CANBERRA ACT 2600 Australia |
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