Mark, One quick and easy method is to capture your display to the clipboard with "alt-print screen", then open Word and do an "edit-paste". Once the image is in there click it and crop/resize as necessary. Obviously this doesn't have the resolution for large schematic/pwbs but if your communicating about a sub circuit of a pwb layout issue it works well. John
Mark HARRISON wrote: > 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? -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >John M. Cardone Electro-Mechanical Dsgn. Engr. Grp. >M/S 278-100 Mechanical Engineering Section, 352 >4800 Oak Grove Dr. NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory >Pasadena, Ca 91109 >Tel: 818.354.5407 MailTo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Fax: 818.393.6400 Cell: 818.653.7818 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
