OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

Joel Page ironfist at mac.com
Fri Jan 16 08:37:37 PST 2004


I shall have to try this -- never got any of the GhostScript-based 
utilities to work before.

If I can get a decent recipe (or a script that does it) it would help 
out immensely.

Joel

On Jan 16, 2004, at 5:42 AM, Adam Maxwell wrote:

>
> On 15 Jan, 2004, at 21:39, Joel Page wrote:
>
>> Likewise, even though Word can insert a PDF, it renders it as a 72 
>> dpi bitmap image, which I find to be wrong in the wrongest way.
>
> Hear, hear!  I think this would be bigger/better news for Word 2004 
> than any of the 'features' that they demoed at Macworld.  Not like I'd 
> start using it again anyway :).
>
>> And even though one can put a preview into our EPS exports via free 
>> utilities, Word continues to ignore those as well.
>
> FWIW, I've been able to do this successfully with epstool, although 
> Word only recognizes an LZW TIFF preview.  If anyone is interested, 
> the command line is `epstool -tg --device tifflzw inputfile.eps 
> outputfile.eps`; this requires ghostscript, as well, so it's 
> non-trivial.  I'm sure the Carbon solution you folks are working on is 
> much cleaner!
>
> Looking forward to hearing the news on the list today...
>
> rgds,
> Adam Maxwell
>
> _______________________________________________
> OmniGraffle-Users mailing list
> OmniGraffle-Users at omnigroup.com
> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/omnigraffle-users




More information about the OmniGraffle-Users mailing list