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Message no. 1
From: Fearless Leader <Bryce.Kaspar@********.EDU>
Subject: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:45:01 -0600
Is there a site that has a copy of Plastic Warriors and stuff in a more
Mac friendly form? All I can find are copies in Word for Windows 6.0
format and my machine refuses to have anything to do with them. .pdf
format would be good.

. .
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright | What the hammer? what the chain?
In the forests of the night, | In what furnace was thy brain?
What immortal hand or eye | What the anvil? what dread grasp
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? | Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
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In what distant deeps or skies | When the stars threw down their spears
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? | And watered heaven with their tears,
On what wings dare he aspire? | Did he smile his work to see?
What the hand dare seize the fire?| Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

--Blake
Message no. 2
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 17:05:28 -0600
At 16:45 5/6/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Is there a site that has a copy of Plastic Warriors and stuff in a more
>Mac friendly form? All I can find are copies in Word for Windows 6.0
>format and my machine refuses to have anything to do with them. .pdf
>format would be good.

I've been meaning to do this for awhile. Its one of my current projects,
along with a few billion other things. I'll start on one of the smaller
ones today. Pending Gurths approval..I think he said I was allowed to do
this, but I've forgotten.. Gurth? :)

-Adam
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someone's .sig?" -Dvixen, a phone call that turned out to be bloody cheap.
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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:25:32 +0100
Fearless Leader said on 16:45/ 6 May 97...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mark, someone's after your list job! :)

> Is there a site that has a copy of Plastic Warriors and stuff in a more
> Mac friendly form? All I can find are copies in Word for Windows 6.0
> format and my machine refuses to have anything to do with them. .pdf
> format would be good.

Not to my knowledge; I wish I had the room to put up additional copies on
my page, but it's just about full :/ (I believe that I exceed my disk
quota if I get a lot of mail...).

However, I have been thinking of saving the files in RTF format and
replacing the Word files on my page with those. This would enable just
about anyone with a word processor to view the files, regardless of
whether they use Windows or a Mac, and I believe some Unix programs can
use them too.

As for PDF, I don't have Adobe Acrobat so I can't create them.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
You've got to go there and find it, my friend.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 4
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:25:32 +0100
Adam J said on 17:05/ 6 May 97...

[Plastic Warriors in PDF]
> I've been meaning to do this for awhile. Its one of my current projects,
> along with a few billion other things. I'll start on one of the smaller
> ones today. Pending Gurths approval..I think he said I was allowed to do
> this, but I've forgotten.. Gurth? :)

Yes, I did say you could convert them to PDF, and you replied you had a
lot of other things to convert first :) Just one thing: before you put
them up on any web page, I'd like to see a copy -- quality control, you
know :)

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
You've got to go there and find it, my friend.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 5
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:24:38 -0400
Gurth once dared to write,

>However, I have been thinking of saving the files in RTF format and
>replacing the Word files on my page with those. This would enable just
>about anyone with a word processor to view the files, regardless of
>whether they use Windows or a Mac, and I believe some Unix programs can
>use them too.

I've had a problem with RTF files on my Mac. I do all my word
processing in Quark Xpress so all I'll get from a RTF file is text in
default font settings and a drekload of code for anything else inserted
into the file. I ran into this problem when I offered to convert Fro's
TSS issue. I'd rather not try to look at a RTF file. I personally think
of it more as a Microsoft format (and I don't put anything by Microsoft
on my machine).
>
>As for PDF, I don't have Adobe Acrobat so I can't create them.

Then getting someone else who can would be a good idea. PDF was
designed to be universal and I can read those. I'm glad Fro got his hands
on one because I wasn't having any luck with converting his RTF file for
him.


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Message no. 6
From: Paolo Marcucci <paolo@*********.IT>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:05:33 +0200
At 08:24 07/05/97 -0400, you wrote:
> I've had a problem with RTF files on my Mac. I do all my word
>processing in Quark Xpress so all I'll get from a RTF file is text in
>default font settings and a drekload of code for anything else inserted
>into the file.

You should try with a word processor program, not a dtp one... :) There are
loads not coming from Redmond.

>I ran into this problem when I offered to convert Fro's
>TSS issue. I'd rather not try to look at a RTF file. I personally think
>of it more as a Microsoft format (and I don't put anything by Microsoft
>on my machine).

Actually rtf is an IBM format.

Bye, Paolo

____________________________________________________________
Paolo Marcucci paolo@*********.it
InterWare Service Provider Trieste, Italy
http://www.interware.it/ Tel. +39-40-411400
Message no. 7
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 12:10:44 +0100
MC23 said on 8:24/ 7 May 97...

> I've had a problem with RTF files on my Mac. I do all my word
> processing in Quark Xpress so all I'll get from a RTF file is text in
> default font settings and a drekload of code for anything else inserted
> into the file.

That sounds like a filter that isn't 100% correct to me. Are you sure it
doesn't assume it's a plain ASCII file? That would explain the code
between the actual text, and the lack of formatting.

> >As for PDF, I don't have Adobe Acrobat so I can't create them.
>
> Then getting someone else who can would be a good idea.

Fro offered to convert them, so if he has somewhere to put them on the
net, everyone who wants to should be able to get the files in PDF format.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
You've got to go there and find it, my friend.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 8
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 01:54:17 -0600
At 12:10 5/8/97 +0100, you wrote:

>Fro offered to convert them, so if he has somewhere to put them on the
>net, everyone who wants to should be able to get the files in PDF format.

I have the space -- its not perfect, its one of the free places, but I have
enough meggage there to store them all, I think. My friend
who-was-supposed-to-be-donating-web-space ended up getting his newish
Solaris box fried, so thats down the tubes.

I think I'll start on BSW tonight, its the smallest, and I did say I would
convert it to 8 x 11 paper, too. Gurth, do you want an A4 version of the
PDF to check out, too?

-Adam
"May I ask why you want a dedicated line?"
"I'm an IRC jun*cough**cough* I run a magazine and co-admin a mailing list."
Message no. 9
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Plastic Warriors For Mac?
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 12:47:08 +0100
Adam J said on 1:54/ 9 May 97...

> I think I'll start on BSW tonight, its the smallest, and I did say I would
> convert it to 8 x 11 paper, too. Gurth, do you want an A4 version of the
> PDF to check out, too?

Yes. (A4 having priority as far as I'm concerned -- you North Americans
should learn to use normal paper sizes ;) Anyway, hopefully this'll work
out right, unlike the PostScript versions I'd been planning to do...

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
You've got to go there and find it, my friend.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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