Re: MS word suggest: Doc linking

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From: Krystian (krystian)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:21:42 -0500

Give me a hint onto how?

Jezebel wrote:
> Word can do this already.
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> "Krystian" <krystian at no spam mindspring dot com> wrote in message
> news:eNkLWhU7EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
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>> I don't know if any of you have used the LaTeX Text Editor, but my
>> current question comes from an idea I had when reflecting on work
>> I've done when writing papers within LaTeX.
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>> A few days ago I was making a mail merge for my father, where I
>> would link addresses from an Access DB to an MS Word document.
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>> In this particular mailing I'm doing, I have the need to print an
>> image which is naturally the size of a regular 8x11 sheet of paper.
>> If I insert the image into the word document, Word resizes it and
>> wraps the image inside a document. This is unacceptable because
>> resizing the image causes the text on the image to become
>> unreadable. I also don't know of a way to link the image without
>> wrapping it in the word document. I want the image to print without
>> reformatting, because it unfortunately is a big image.
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>> The desired quality of the image is when I print the image through
>> "Microsoft Windows Picture and Fax viewer" (with the option of: full
>> page photo print).
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>> However, when printing a mail merge, users find fun in crafting
>> automation. There's no way (at least that I know of, which should it
>> exist I'd really wish to know) to tell Word to do this:
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>> With the hit of one print button:
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>> - Print this Envelope and Document composed in MS Word.
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>> - Print the images linked to this "file" with another print
>> processor (like Microsoft Windows picture and Fax Viewer"... which
>> should come out to 1 image per page in this situation)
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>> When composing a document in LaTeX, you link images with your
>> document. The LaTeX document doesn't embed them (but rather, your
>> images are compiled into the document at the end with formatting you
>> specify). I realize there are options for word not to inline images,
>> but what if the image is equal to the page size? Can I marshal
>> multiple images to print with a different print processor than Word
>> but have to only hit print once?
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>> Another great idea that spins from this follows: When people compose
>> a Word document, they may wish to link other documents that were
>> composed in different programs (like Adobe PDFs) to their current
>> document.
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>> For instance, suppose I have an instruction sheet on how to complete
>> a particular form which has been composed in Word Format and I have
>> the actual form in Adobe PDF format, I would want to somehow "link"
>> them together. (so that there is encapsulation that is forced to be
>> sequential... unlike enclosing files in a zip file whereby the user
>> accesses them in any order, forcing sequential access to a sequence
>> of files allows a flow to exist between multiple different files
>> (which in this case would be of different file types) in a set, like
>> the pages of a book). I think this could be achieved by spooling all
>> documents of different file types to a virtual printer using the
>> different programs that read them, and then retrieving the
>> postscript generated by the printer which is the same format (file
>> independent) then "gluing" the file together. Is there a way to do
>> this currently?
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>> The current way users do this is to convert the document to Word
>> format so that they can include it with their current document. Is
>> there a way which permits the user to print multiple documents which
>> are linked to one document (in this case a word file) but by hitting
>> the print button once (like when doing a mail merge)
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>> Please consider the thoughts presented and respond to me whether
>> this can be accomplished with Word.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Krystian.

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