Re: Q: (mac) Freehand to Word?

[Bex <rebeccaf -at- COMPNEWS -dot- CO -dot- UK>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 1995, Keith S. Wilkinson wrote:

> >>Any mac user know how to export a graphic from Freehand 3.1 into Word 5.1
> without the whole thing deteriorating into a horrible bitmap...

> >Select the Freehand thingy (whichever part you need...or all), hold down the
> option key, and choose COPY from the Edit menu.

> Option-copy (copy with postscript) sometimes works, but results are uneven.
> I've heard that this is because MS Word uses a special own clipboard format
> (the standard clipboard can't handle objects over a certain size, 64KB?,
> anyway).
> If you convert your graphic to Adobe Illustrator, read it into a new MS Word

What steps do you take to convert the graphic to Adobe Illustrator?
I don't think I have a 'Save As Adobe Illustrator' option, that I can
find.

> document, then copy & paste to the target document, it works more
> consistently...
> EPS-with-preview (bitmap) file format should also work.
> I gather that the PICT is what Word displays, but you need the postscript
> embedded
> in the PICT bitmap to get a pretty printout (to Word it looks like a PICT,
> but it prints as Postscript).


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