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| 4830.1 | | BUSY::SLAB | Buzzword Bingo | Fri Sep 06 1996 12:45 | 3 |
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NOTED::FRAMEMAKER
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| 4830.2 | | NPSS::NEWFIELD | | Fri Sep 06 1996 12:47 | 1 |
| thanks!
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| 4830.3 | | BUSY::SLAB | Buzzword Bingo | Fri Sep 06 1996 12:48 | 4 |
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And, TNPUBS::J_GOLDSTEIN is at LKG and has written to that
conference.
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| 4830.4 | | ATLANT::SCHMIDT | See http://atlant2.zko.dec.com/ | Fri Sep 06 1996 12:52 | 14 |
| > I received a Postscript file created in Framemaker. I don't have
> Framemaker & need to make some minor changes. Does anyone in the
> Littleton area have Framemaker that I can come use for just a few
> mintues?
But if you've actually got a PostScript file, you won't be
able to edit it in "Framemaker". PostScript is what's called
"final form"; the frame file from which it was derived is the
"revisable" form. You can edit the second but can't (easily)
edit the first.
Contact the person who passed you the file.
Atlant
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| 4830.5 | ONTIME::POSTSCRIPT | EVMS::HALLYB | Fish have no concept of fire | Fri Sep 06 1996 14:07 | 7 |
| On the other hand if the changes are not TOO complex you can just edit
the PostScript file and be done with it. Depends on how the rest of the
document is affected by your "minor changes". Changing "Smith" to
"Jones" is pretty easy. Adding a new sentence would be a lot harder
to do in PostScript.
John
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| 4830.6 | Get source files | NETCAD::PERARO | | Fri Sep 06 1996 15:04 | 10 |
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You really should get the source files that built the FrameMaker file.
FrameMaker allows you to create mutilpe chapters and create a book file
to print the .PS file.
We have Frame here that we use. I highly suggest getting the source
files, it will be easier.
Mary
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| 4830.7 | | BUSY::SLAB | Career Opportunity Week at DEC | Fri Sep 06 1996 15:10 | 3 |
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Can't MS Word import a .PS file?
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| 4830.8 | It can be opened | NETCAD::PERARO | | Fri Sep 06 1996 15:15 | 9 |
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You can open a .PS file in MS Word, all you will see is the output for
the .PS file.
If you don't know how to edit .PS files, you can run into alot of
problems trying to fix text or add text in the .PS file.
Mary
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| 4830.9 | | BUSY::SLAB | Career Opportunity Week at DEC | Fri Sep 06 1996 15:35 | 4 |
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If Word can import and export a .PS file, I don't see the prob-
lem in making the changes IN Word and writing out a new file.
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| 4830.10 | | YIELD::HARRIS | | Fri Sep 06 1996 15:45 | 3 |
| Word lets you include postscript as a picture, not a document.
-Bruce
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| 4830.11 | | ATLANT::SCHMIDT | See http://atlant2.zko.dec.com/ | Fri Sep 06 1996 16:10 | 13 |
| Shawn:
PostScript is, essentially, a computer programming language.
(If you speak Forth or any other Reverse-Polish Notation
language, you'll recognize PostScript.) So besides a little
bit of text, there's also a lot of what to a lay person
would be gobbledegook.
As someone correctly observed, if the change is anything
more than a word or two directly substituted for similar-
sized word(s), it's not even worth the effort.
Atlant
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| 4830.12 | | HELIX::WELLCOME | Steve Wellcome SHR3-1/C22 Pole A22 | Fri Sep 06 1996 16:38 | 11 |
| Having edited some postscript files on occasion...forget it.
Get the source.
Now, you *might* be able to run it through the Adobe PDF
distiller and get a PDF file, and I *think* there may be
a PDF editor available from Adobe as well (as part of
Adobe Acrobat 3.0, maybe???)
But it would be a lot easier to get the Frame source files....
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| 4830.13 | | NPSS::GLASER | Steve Glaser DTN 226-7212 LKG1-2/W6 (G17) | Fri Sep 06 1996 17:13 | 9 |
| Adobe PDF won't help either. The "Editor" you get can only do simple
things like rearranging pages, cropping pages, merging pages from
different PDF files, adding bookmarks, thumbnail sketches, notes and
article flow information.
In particular it CANNOT edit content within a page other than
rectangular cropping.
Steveg
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| 4830.14 | Exchange is limited, Illustrator is powerful | CALDEC::GOETZE | erik goetze; The joy is in the going. We are betrayed by destina | Sat Sep 07 1996 21:06 | 6 |
| On the other hand, Adobe Illustrator 6 can open PDF files and make
substantive changes to the content. However I wouldn't recommend
this for many textual changes, as the text is not flowed into
frames but instead each line is its own object.
erik
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