Getting plots from xwinplot

Graupner, Paul (prgraupner@dowelanco.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:58:41 -0500

This question seems to pop up from time to time, and so I thought I
would add my little bit, as it is something that I have spent a lot of
time working on.

I have found that the best way to remove plots from the Indy into a
format that can be displayed on a PC, is to write the plots as
postscript files, ftp them to my PC, where they are picked up by Acrobat
Distiller (part of Acrobat Exchange), and converted into pdf format,
whereupon they can be viewed by other acrobat products (including the
freeware reader). However this does not answer the question of how to
get them into Word. On my home PC, I have bought a program from
Micrografx called windows draw ($50 from Comp. USA), which will import
postscript files. Whilst I haven't yet tried importing these into word
as a graphic, annotating the spectra and printing from draw work just
fine. If I get time this weekend, I'll try and see how an import into
word goes.

I know that Adobe Illustrator will open pdf files, but only on a Mac, so
I haven't tried that yet. Canvas (deneba) will also open pdf files, but
it does not work well enough in my experience.. Does anyone know of any
other products which will open ps or pdf files, and thus allow cut and
paste into word? (I don't like using hpgl format by the way)

Paul Graupner
DowElanco
Indianapolis

Tel (317) 337 3496
prgraupner@dowelanco.com