In article , John McGhie
wrote:

Hi Sandra:

On 10/11/04 2:56 AM, in article ,
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

- What is the best file format to use? ( I can do all
converting/resizing myself in Photoshop) - I realize there will be a
conflict between image quality and bloating the document itself...
would PNG be the way to go? I've always thought EPS or TIFF, but I
believe these may be too heavy and not usuable by some versions of
Word. I could create an EPS as well and have it available in case it
is needed.

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

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If your authors want to see the pictures, you will have to put them in the
document. There is no vector format that will successfully cross between PC
and Mac. EPS won't work. WMF works "sort of". EMF is better. Both will
be converted to PICT by the Mac, which will alter some line styles.

I have not had much problem pushing embedded eps files at PCs from my
Mac. There are subtle differences between epsf files made with various
tools, especially getting previews that Word will understand.

I included some eps drawings from OmniGraffle yesterday. They printed
OK, but there was no preview. I fixed that with GraphicConverter. The
previews look horrible on my Mac, but looked OK on the recipient's PC.

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