OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[Karl Kuehn]

	I am not sure what you were arguing Ortwin, Nate was simply asking for 
a preview to be embedded into OmniGraffle's EPD output. This is usually 
done by inserting a tiff into the image, and OmniGraffle does not do 
this currently (I checked... no embedded preview). This would be a nice 
feature for two reasons: Some applications (Word being the case in 
point) do not have postscript interpreters built in, and look to the 
embedded preview to have something to display (Quark was the main 
example of this... but this has changed.. somewhat... in the latest 
version).
	The second reason is that you get a nice preview of the image in the 
Finder. This can be very nice when you have a whole catalog of files 
and are looking for the 'one with the red dress'. I too would like to 
see this feature added, but it is not a high priority for me. I can 
understand how it would be for those people who are trapped into using 
word.

		Karl Kuehn
			larkost at softhome.net

On Jan 15, 2004, at 3:32 PM, Ortwin Zillgen wrote:

>> 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.
>
>> 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.