OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[John Oram]

I've been playing around with exporting to PDF from OG, and then 
exporting to WMF with GraphicConverter to get into Word.

	OG -> .pdf -> GC -> .wmf -> Word -> .doc

If you Save as... WMF in Graphic Converter you get a 7 MB file (vs. 
the 112 KB OG and 64 KB PDF.  Make sure you are using the latest 
version, currently 4.93 -- with 4.8, the WMF was 35 MB and crashed GC 
upon completion...)

Surprisingly, when inserted into Word, the file is only 300 KB, and 
opens cleanly on both the Mac and Windows versions of Word.  I 
haven't had a chance to print yet, but I am able to zoom in quite 
well, so I am optimistic.  (It also imports into PowerPoint.

As a side note, I went down this route since I wasn't able to get a 
non-jaggy preview with OG -> .eps -> GC -> .epsf + preview -> Word.

Additionally, they won't open on Word for Windows -- it complains 
that it needs QuickTime to decompress the JPEG, but it is not 
installed (when in fact it is...)  I can't risk Windows co-workers 
dealing with that.

Dumb question -- what does the "F" stand for in EPSF?  Is it 
equivalent to EPS?  If not, why does GC only allow export to EPSF?

-John


At 4:47 PM -0500 1/18/04, Nate Goldshlag wrote:
>I have another solution.  Export to EPS from OG and then use Graphic 
>Converter (using their convert and modify menu option) to add a 
>preview to the EPS.  Make sure you select JPEG and PICT.  This EPS 
>will be able to be put into Word X with preview and it prints fine.
>
>Of course all this may be moot when 3.1 comes out...  At least we can hope so.
>
>Nate
>
>On Jan 15, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Nate Goldshlag wrote:
>
>>I know this has been discussed, by looking into the archives.  But 
>>has anybody discovered the secret sauce for getting OmniGraffle 
>>objects into Word X so that the following occurs:
>>
>>1. There is a (possibly low resolution) preview.
>>2. No fuzzies when you print.
>>3. Resizable objects, with no loss of resolution.
>>
>>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:
>>
>>1. Copy the selection in OG
>>2. In Photoshop Elements, do New from Clipboard.
>>3. In Photoshop Elements, export as Photoshop EPS, Macintosh 8 bit 
>>medium preview.
>>4. Import into Word X
>>
>>This works, and the stuff prints fine on both Mac and PC.  But does 
>>anybody have a better way?  I have tried playing around with 
>>Preview under Panther with no luck.  I really don't want high 
>>resolution bitmaps like PNG or JPEG.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Nate
>
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