John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg
wrote:


Marte Schwarz wrote:


Hi,



I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image.


make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if
needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary
now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer
;-)
Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like
AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office

Marte


Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what
format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can
crop it right there.


Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see
what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the
picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program
will let you drag a crop box just where you want it.


Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that
nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away
sections just blackened but not deleted.


The way Word handles images is a disgrace. Hell, the way it handles
text is a disgrace!


Can't say that. It does some weird things such as like micro-crashes but
those are mostly recoverable. Except when it hangs up on that dreaded
normal.dot file. This sometimes requires hitting the reset button but
then again that's kind of normal in a Windows environment.


I am certainly not a Microsoft fan and IMHO they should not design
operating systems anymore but their MS-Word is quite a good product.
Very practical, useful, and it doesn't have the bloat or leave memory
leaks like OpenOffice does. I have yet to find a better word processor
than MS-Word, but I'm not looking for one because it works.


It's a ghastly mess.


I've done my docs and module specs with MS-Word since the first day of
self-employment back in the late 80's. In fact, even with DOS-Word there
wasn't much that I couldn't do compared to "modern" versions of it. I
was always able to happily copy and paste schematic sections where it
was needed to explains stuff, plus scope plots, analyzer pics etc. Heck,
it even allowed a straight import of HPGL so you could include plots
that came in over those garden hose cables. In the days of DOS!

The only MS program that I believe is even higher in reliability is
MS-Works. That rarely ever crashes and keep my biz databases all caught up.

--
Regards, Joerg

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