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.
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                        Wojciech Zabolotny
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