Hi again, The key problem here is getting the Protel 99SE/SP6 schematic into Word, or any other graphics program. It worked last year! Today it doesn't! Neither tools has been updated in the mean time. Main trouble is I can't remember how I made it work last year...
I forgot to mention that cutting and pasting to Corel Draw as an intermediate step also fails so it's not a Word specific problem (similar but worse corruption problems occur in Corel with text labels, wires moving about, arcs turning into circles, etc). Yes, I agree PDF is a much better transport format for the final version. In fact I have been distributing all the documentation as PDF files as I can generally rely on it printing out anywhere, on any printer. Distributing as a Word document often ends in tears as other there are too many variables that affect viewing word documents on other computers including missing or incompatible graphic object viewers, different page margin settings on other peoples printers, etc. I have used Ghostview/Ghostscript to convert the Apple LaserwriterII postscript output of Word into a PDF with few troubles. p.s. I agree that using a REAL document system like Pagemaker, Quark, etc. may be a solution, but I don't have those kinds of resources and can't be certain that the same cut and paste problems won't occur in those packages. P.S.S. I had similar problems many years ago and was eventually told by a Microsoft Support person that I could not expect Microsoft Office products to import all WMF graphics reliably from other vendors products. The reason given was that although Microsoft wrote and published the WMF standard, they didn't actually stick to the standard themselves, and the trouble was all the fault of other vendors (in this case MathWorks Matlab) following the standard too ridgedly!!!!! Cheers, Mark Harrison Bionic Ear Institute > Mark HARRISON wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I'm having trouble cutting and pasting schematics from > Protel 99SE into a > > M$Office Word 2000 document. > > > > Unfortunately some of the text moves about, gets > duplicated, and isn't > > rotated. > > Also text sometimes become bold or changes size. > > > > I'm sure this has worked in the past but I can't remember > what the trick > > was. > > Pasting as Enhanced Metafile, or Picture doesn't help either. > > > > Have selected default "Microsoft Word" as the "Picture Editor" since > > selecting "MS Draw 98" has had disastrous effects in the > past if someone > > accidentally clicks on a schematics in Word! > > > > Any ideas? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
