OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[John Oram]

Thanks for the clarification on EPS(F), Adam.  That definitely means 
it's out for me.  I chose PICT in CG, but it clearly isn't vectorized 
when it gets to Word (though it does show up in both platforms...

I've posted the Word doc I made using the 
OG->.pdf->GC->.wmf->Word->.doc process to

	http://oram.com/omni/wmf.doc

I'd be curious to see if a) it's clear on screen for others, and b) 
it can be cleanly printed out (I won't have access to a printer until 
Tuesday).

Pretty happy with the WMF import, but I don't quite understand why 
the file gets so much smaller in Word.  I'm guessing Thorston's code 
isn't quite as optimized as Bill's.  (Then again, VDX from OG is 
about 1/10th the size of VDX from Visio, so it seems Bill's code has 
room for improvement here and there...)

This presumes that GC isn't actually turning it into a bitmap. 
Taking a close look at 500% magnification in Word, the image seems a 
tiny bit blurry, but still acceptable.  If I zoom the PDF in Preview, 
no blurriness.  If I zoom the PDF in GC, you can clearly see the 
pixellation at 2000%, and you get an identical result when you zoom 
the WMF in GC.  It seems that GC's WMF export is a little lossy (or 
zoom is flaky?)

While it may be a bit blurry, and Word doesn't draw it very fast, I'd 
trade that for the cross platform guarantee.

-John

p.s.  Some info on the WMF spec:

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/libwmf.html

http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp - search for WMF

At 7:12 PM -0600 1/18/04, Adam Maxwell wrote:
>On 18 Jan, 2004, at 18:06, John Oram wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I don't think you can get a non-jaggy preview unless you can add a 
>vector PICT preview somehow (maybe Illustrator or Photoshop?).  I 
>don't think this is the original intent of the EPS preview, though.
>
>>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?
>
>Not a dumb question at all.  From 
><http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node81.html>, it appears 
>that EPSF is typically a file with EPS in the data fork and a PICT 
>preview in the resource fork (hence the preview is only useful on 
>the Mac).  On a non-HFS file system it would appear as plain EPS 
>with no preview.
>
>rgds,
>Adam
>
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