Re: problems pasting Adobe Illustrator graphics into Word
- From: Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:01:58 +0000
In article <C040581C.173EA%henryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, henryn
<henryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks:<snip>
Word 2004 Version 11.2 (050714)
Adobe Illustrator 10
MacOS 10.3.9 fully updated
It's baaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!
This issue is, oh, 4 years old. I thought it gone away, but...
You have my sympathy. I spent over an hour this morning trying to get
an eps with a Preview that Word would accept.
(Yes, I have discovered a foolproof method of inserting IllustratorYep, and tiffs are still rasters. Word seems to downrez everything as
sketches: Export them as TIFFs from Illustrator and import them to Word
using
Insert->Picture->From File...
but this requires significantly more steps for each sketch, takes _much_
longer, and produces intermediate files to manage. By the way, in
experiments I did several years ago, only TIFF format seemed to work for
this purpose.)
soon as you look at it sideways. It was for this reason I was looking
for an eps with preview that actually worked in Word. And one that
would work on a PC too. A colleague had been given an eps logo from
Illy that he could neither view nor print on his PC.
Dunno, but I saw something similar. Once I finally got an eps with
Extra Credit Question: If I switch to "Normal" view in Word, place the
cursor where I want it, and execute
Edit->Paste Special...->Picture
Then, for a reason I do not understand, Word switches to "Page Layout" view
in the process of performing the paste operation. Well, whatever, yup,
there's Figure 37, all jaggy. I switch back to "Normal" view: Figure 37
disappears! Go back to "Page Layout" view and it reappears. Figure 36 and
Figure 38 show up in both views. For 10 extra points, what is with this?
preview that appeared in Word (Photoshop 5 EPS as offered by Freehand
10's export, after the file had been through Illy and OmniGraffle), I
found that any attempt to resize the picture in Word caused the graphic
to disappear. It would still print to Ppppp...postscript printers but
its presence on screen was only detectable by clicking where it should
have been. Its bounding box would appear.
Then I discovered that I could make the preview re-appear by switching
to normal view and back to page view. Sometimes the first attempt would
show a cropped version of the preview at the original scale, but
flicking between normal and page view again magically made it work
properly.
I should add that Mac Word handles PICT previews with more aplomb than
it does for TIFF previews, but that is not an option for my PC totin'
colleagues.
Maybe this isn't Extra Credit after all...
Does this indicate I am overlooking an implicit or non-obvious graphic mode
choice in Word? In "Mode A" pasted graphics show up in both views and are
rendered correctly. In "Mode B" the graphics show up jaggy in "Layout" view
and not at all in "Normal" view. (Or something like that.) Does this
observation ring any bells? What kind of graphics are visible in "Page
Layout" and not visible in "Normal"?
Your suggestions are very welcome. I _really_ need to finish this document.
I'm with mmmmark. Take the extra time to insert picture from file.
Clipboard is always flaky, and Word's dealings wit the clipboard are
flakier than most. Also, if what you are doing is not going to high
quality printing, TIFF will be less trouble than eps.
Another good tip is to get the picture the exact size and dpi you need
in the final doc before you let it anywhere near Word. That's what I
meant about Word downrezing if it looked at it sideways.
Arrange these words in correct order:
Breakfast Dog's Complete.
Do you notice that the latest Illy has an export to Microsoft Word
option? It flattens eveything out to PNG. I think Illy knows when it is
dealing with a spoilt troublesome child.
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