OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[Nate Goldshlag]

>> I have a big technical document.  I really want objects not bitmaps.  
>> This is why graphics professionals like EPS.  With JPEG or PNG, 
>> printing is ridiculously slow, even on a fast laser printer at work.  
>> And the file size is larger.
>>
>> I really need an EPS solution with preview for OG.
>
> I don't see the problem. EPS ist PostScript and you need a 
> PostScript-Interpreter to use the full resolution of the outputmedia. 
> Preview of OSX.3 does do that pretty well.
> To see more than a rectangle-representation of the space occupied by 
> the EPS, a preview gets generated, usually. This is a bitmap at 72 
> dpi, mostly.

OG does not create such a preview.

>
>> Clearly EPS is the best way, but OG does not provide a preview.  So 
>> the
>> best, but kludgy, workaround I have discovered is the following:
>
> So what I did was printing from OG into a file, output options: "save 
> as file" and "postscript". Your statement "but OG does not provide a 
> preview" is not true, it does and it looks pretty well.
> Drag that EPS into TextEdit and you'll see. If it doesn't show in Word 
> X, you know whom to ask.

A postscript file is not the same as EPS.  If I print the OG thing to 
.ps it will get the whole page and not just the object I want.  And you 
cannot drag that into Word X.  You can drag it into Preview under 
Panther and it gets converted to .pdf.  But there is no way to get that 
into Word without getting fuzzy printing.  At least none that I have 
figured out.

Nate

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>
> Regards
> Ortwin Zillgen