OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[Kenneth Prager]

I printed the document to both an Epson SP 785EPX and a Brother 
HL-1270N.  Worked great.  Now I'm going to try this with one of my 
drawings.

Ken P.



At 6:12 PM -0800 1/18/04, John Oram wrote:
>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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