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Subject:Re: Q: (mac) Freehand to Word? From:"D. Philipp Binggeli" <DBinggeli -at- ALLENCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 19 Jun 1995 15:00:00 PDT
Greetings:
Select the Freehand thingy (whichever part you need...or all), hold down the
option key, and choose COPY from the Edit menu. This should allow you to get
the whole mess across applications without losing parts, scaling the thing,
or cropping off portions.
All you need to do in Word is to paste the clipboard contents wherever
needed (command-V or choose PASTE from the Edit menu).
ATTENTION: If the selected stuff is too large to handle, you'll get an
error, or it won't work. In that case, up the memory allocated to Freehand.
By the way, your best solution would be to avoid Freehand if possible. But I
had the same problems as the ones you alluded to, and I, too, had no other
choice but to use Freehand.
Good luck,
Dee Philipp
dbinggeli -at- allencomm -dot- com
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To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Q: (mac) Freehand to Word?
Date: Monday, June 19, 1995 4:10PM
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, and
printing out that way?
(Not saying that bitmaps are always horrible, of course.)
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