In article , Tim Murray
wrote:

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:27:14 -0500, Elliott Roper wrote
(in article ):

EPS probably won't work in Mac Word. It certainly won't display. That's a
design bug, but we're stuck with it.
In my experience it almost always works ok. It mishandles the eps on
print to PDF. The preview is printed in error. You can work around that
with print-output options-print to file choose postscript, not PDF.

In my experience, EPS works great in Mac Word, other than its fuzzy preview,
and as long as any font that's called for in the EPS is available to the
operating system. Great PDFs too (but see next entry).

Then, in Preview, open the ps file. It will automatically make it into
a PDF which you can save.

Elliot, I think that the Preview method uses the Mac's own PDF/Quartz engine
versus the Adobe, resulting in different ... type? ... of PDF. You don't get
embedded fonts, compression is less, etc. Descriptions and a comparison can
be found at http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/info/MacOSX.htm and elsewhere.

For documents destined for distribution and that contain EPS graphics, I run
the PostScript file through Distiller. For basic stuff, I use Apple

That's a pretty good summary of the situation as I see it too. The url
is an excellent 1 page comparison.

It is dead right about transparency. That bit me last week. I really
should shell out for full Acrobat. I keep hoping that Quartz will catch
up. Preview was a huge improvement with Panther. Maybe the stripy one
will close the gap further.

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