Re: [tkined] PostScript can't display in Word97

Louis A. Mamakos (louie@transsys.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:02:07 -0400

Last time I looked, Microsoft Word didn't have a PostScript interpreter
in it.

louie

>
> >>>>> Vincent Qing Yin writes:
>
> Vincent> After opening a MIB in tkined and save as a postscript file,
> Vincent> I cannot get it to display properly in Microsoft Word 97.
>
> Vincent> I changed the file suffix to .eps instead of .ps. It
> Vincent> displays nicely in `ghostview' on UNIX. But when I insert
> Vincent> that file as a picture into Word97, it displays something
> Vincent> like:
>
> Vincent> Title: Window .top0.c Creator: Tk Canvas Widget ...
>
> Vincent> How to fix that?
>
> The problem is either in Microsoft Word 97 or in Scriptics Tk library.
> Scotty just calls the Tk library function which generates PostScript
> from a canvas widget. Now you have the choice to contact either
> Microsoft or Scriptics in order to get the problem resolved. ;-)
>
> Juergen
>
> Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw
> Technical University Braunschweig, Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
> Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. (Tel. +49 531 / 391 3289)
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