Re: Inserting eps files into Word2003

From: Jeroen Dekker (jeroen_at_square1.nl)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: 29 Jul 2004 00:34:55 -0700

sveta,

It seems that Graham is already trying to help you with the quality of
the bitmap preview, whereas maybe you still need to realize what the
situation is: most versions of Word cannot render EPS files. They just
get placed and, when printer to a PostScript printer, passed through
to the printer. To overcome this limitation and give you some idea of
what you're working with, EPS files can contain a (bitmap) preview
which aplications like Word can use to display on screen. Quality of
such a preview is typically low, since PostScript printing is the most
important concern.

There are several flavors of previews, so you can play around with
that to imrpove your viewing experience.

You could also consider converting the EPS files to a vector format
that Word does natively support, such as WMF or EMF. Lost of people
use our ps2vector software for this, a commercial batch conversion
program developed expressly for this purpose. It gives you vector
quality display on screen, vector quality printing also to non-PS
printers, and you can scale and edit the image in Word.

Jeroen Dekker 

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"sveta" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<606601c474f0$d9ff8070$a601280a@phx.gbl>...
> The files that were the files that were not displaying 
> properly when inserted into Word were RGB, which is the 
> Corel default. So that is not
> the solution.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >There are a couple of issues involved here.
> >Postscript is a language that is a set of commands 
>  understood by your
> >postscript printer. The display image is a relatively 
>  low resolution TIF
> >file and is unconnected with the printer output. Corel 
>  allow you to
> >experiment with the type of display image, by default 
>  this will probably by
> >CMYK - 72 dpi. You should start by exporting the display 
>  image in RGB
> >format, which will produce more natural colours in Word.
> >You should also check your display adapter settings. Low 
>  resolutions and
> >limited colours will only make things worse.
> >
> >-- 
> ><>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> >Graham Mayor -  Word MVP
> >
> >My web site www.gmayor.com
> >Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
> ><>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> >
> >
> >
> >sveta wrote:
> >> EPS file created in CorelDraw 11 and inserted into Word
> >> 2003 gives garbled result.It's printing fine with ps
> >> printer, however it's very difficult to work with a
> >> document when you don't know what you're working with.
> >> Does Microsoft provides any kind of solution to this
> >> problem
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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