Post by thread:[OT] schematics program for use in Word document

To all, Can anyone suggest an inexpensive schematics program that generates relatively small file sizes and can be imported into Microsoft Word documents? A colleague is writing a book for use in class and is finding that the file size of the document grows too rapidly for his PC to manage as he cuts and pastes schematics into the document. Any suggestions will be appreciated! Aaron

Aaron, the best method I have found is to export the file from whatever application you created it in as a .wmf file, and then importing this file into Paint Shop Pro at a high resolution (say 3000 horizontal, keeping original aspect ratio), converting it to a 2 colour image, and then saving it as a bitmap. The resulting file is then about 50 kb large, and looks good when printed. If you import the .wmf directly into Word lines and fonts etc. tend to look a bit different and sometimes they float relative to each other etc. Hope that helps Roland {Original Message removed}

There's a program called designworks Lite, which you can download a shareware version of. It's has a rather strange interface which takes some getting used to but it's dedicated to schematic diagramining. You can copy / paste straight into word, but this of course increases document size quite rapidly. A better method is to copy into a paint program and then convert to jpeg or a similar smaller-sized picture format. Alternatively, I have a very VERY simple to use Windows CAD package called EASYCAD which you can save your drawings as WMF's or DXF's. Either of these formats can be imported into Word. >32M of RAM is also a good idea !. Regards, Darren

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 12:25:11PM -0400, Hickman, Aaron wrote: > To all, > > Can anyone suggest an inexpensive schematics program that generates > relatively small file sizes and can be imported into Microsoft Word documents? > A colleague is writing a book for use in class and is finding that the file si ze > of the document grows too rapidly for his PC to manage as he cuts and pastes > schematics into the document. Any suggestions will be appreciated! > I had a similar problem with my PhD thesis. The solution was: use LaTeX with EPS graphics instead of Word. It took much less time to learn LaTeX then to recover my work after innumerable crashes... Another similar problem: my wife's diploma work, written in Word contained ca 1 MB of text. After inserting of 1.5 MB JPEG graphics, the document was 35 MB long (?!). So my suggestion is: avoid using Word for anything longer then 10 pages, especially if it contains complicated graphics, equations etc. -- Wojciech Zabolotny spam_OUTwzabTakeThisOuTise.pw.edu.pl http://www.gnupg.org Gnu Privacy Guard - protect your mail & data with the FREE cryptographic system

Hello Aaron, You can use the shareware version of the "Target2001!design station" program from Ingenieurb|ro Friedrich. With that software, you can copy whatever you selected ( schematic drawing/pcb ) and simply paste it into word. It4s so easy! Please send me a private mail for the download link. Regards, Thomas Fleckenstein ECOMIS Hoergslundur 8 210 Gardabaer Iceland Email: .....thomasKILLspam@spam@ecomis.cc *************************************************************************+ {Original Message removed}

Hi, forget Word. Use lyx! It is for writing books (amongst many other things). And, it is completely free. Professionals (as Kluwerts) use also this. Otherwise, can try EEDRAW 2.4 for drawing schematic, as it is free. Here is my $0.02. Imre On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Hickman, Aaron wrote: > To all, > > Can anyone suggest an inexpensive schematics program that generates > relatively small file sizes and can be imported into Microsoft Word documents? > A colleague is writing a book for use in class and is finding that the file si ze > of the document grows too rapidly for his PC to manage as he cuts and pastes > schematics into the document. Any suggestions will be appreciated! > > Aaron > >

Any lynx, Imre? > Hi, > > forget Word. Use lyx! It is for writing books (amongst many other things). > And, it is completely free. Professionals (as Kluwerts) use also this. > > Otherwise, can try EEDRAW 2.4 for drawing schematic, as it is free. > > Here is my $0.02. > > Imre

Hi, sorry if not understood when it was kind of humour. Otherwise: - lynx is a character-based Web-browser - LyX is is an X-Window-based front-end for LaTeX, which is IMHO the most professional, freely available typesetting package. The most nices thing is you need not to know LaTex to deal with LyX successfully. I think it is a visit worth at http://www.lyx.org Thank you for the bandwidth. Regards, Imre On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Craig Lee wrote: {Quote hidden}> Any lynx, Imre? > > > Hi, > > > > forget Word. Use lyx! It is for writing books (amongst many other things). > > And, it is completely free. Professionals (as Kluwerts) use also this. > > > > Otherwise, can try EEDRAW 2.4 for drawing schematic, as it is free. > > > > Here is my $0.02. > > > > Imre > >