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I believe John McGhie has already addressed these questions on the MacWord
group in another thread. "Sandra Jensen" and "SandJ" are the same person. Sandra, if there are still unanswered issues, post back. -- ***Please always reply to the newsgroup!*** Beth Rosengard Mac MVP Mac Word FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm Entourage Help Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org On 11/9/04 7:56 AM, in article , "Daiya Mitchell" wrote: [cross-posting to the MacWord group--there are cross-platform issues about image formats, I believe] On 11/9/04 3:51 AM, "Sandra Jensen" wrote: Thanks Jezebel - very helpful. I do have a further question about using graphics.... Just to be clear on my situation: I'm working on a mac with Word 2004; my file will be emailed to others on PCs; I don't have control over final printing; it's a long document (about 300 pages). It will be converted to a PDF as well as printed from the Word Doc (and probably imported into a page layout programme for final production...how, I believe, this document should have been created in the first place...but that wasn't my decision) There are a number of images and graphics to be used in this document. I will definitely only insert these once I've finished all the rest of the formatting. However: - 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. - How best to place/format the images in the document? I believe using styles and inline with text is best, however I have set up a deep left hand indent to my body text, and I would like to offset some images so they fall half in the text and half in the wide left margin, and have the text run around the image. I will also need to place a caption or an photo credit underneath the image ( none of which need to be referenced by a TOC or elsewhere). I believe floating graphics are difficult to control, as are text boxes, which seem to be the solution to what I want to do. Is there any other way? thanks in advance, Sandra |
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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 |
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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. -- I thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address. fsnospam$elliott$$ |
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Elliott Roper wrote:
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. Elliot, if your going to shell out for Acrobat. please get the ProVersion and don't waste you money on the Standard version. Also you need to wait until after Xmas if you buying for the first time. They are going from version 6 which was Adobe's First Full attempt at a OSX only application (the Mac version). Acrobat 7 is suppose to have tons of bug fixes and system tweaks over version 6. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 , ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/birthday/index.htm http://vpea.exis.net |
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In article , Phillip M. Jones,
CE.T. wrote: Elliot, if your going to shell out for Acrobat. please get the ProVersion and don't waste you money on the Standard version. Also you need to wait until after Xmas if you buying for the first time. They are going from version 6 which was Adobe's First Full attempt at a OSX only application (the Mac version). Acrobat 7 is suppose to have tons of bug fixes and system tweaks over version 6. Heh! Thanks for that Phillip, I am wrestling with an uncontrollable desire to lash out for the full CS suite to get myself fully up-to-date and legal too. Maybe waiting to get the version with Acro 7 will give me a bit more will power. -- I thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address. fsnospam$elliott$$ |
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Elliott Roper wrote:
In article , Phillip M. Jones, CE.T. wrote: Elliot, if your going to shell out for Acrobat. please get the ProVersion and don't waste you money on the Standard version. Also you need to wait until after Xmas if you buying for the first time. They are going from version 6 which was Adobe's First Full attempt at a OSX only application (the Mac version). Acrobat 7 is suppose to have tons of bug fixes and system tweaks over version 6. Heh! Thanks for that Phillip, I am wrestling with an uncontrollable desire to lash out for the full CS suite to get myself fully up-to-date and legal too. Maybe waiting to get the version with Acro 7 will give me a bit more will power. No problem. If you go to adobe's website they are taking "pre-orders" that won't be charged to your card until the day they ship the order. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 , ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/birthday/index.htm http://vpea.exis.net |
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