OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[Chris Ridd]

On 19/1/04 1:58 pm, Nate Goldshlag <nateg at pobox.com> wrote:

> I discovered that John is right in that the .epsf files that GC creates
> with PICT preview are not viewable in Word on a PC.
> 
> With the .wmf method I found that the files when put into Word were
> *much* smaller than the original .eps that OmniGraffle created (without
> preview).  In fact I had to scale the .wmf files by 960% to get the
> same size image.  I found when I printed and looked closely that there
> are subtle jaggies with the .wmf files that do not exist with the .eps
> files.  I am not sure if .wmf is a vector or bitmap format, or if the
> problem arises because of the Graphic Converter bug that makes them so
> small that you have to drastically expand them.  I have an email in to
> Thorsten Lemke about this.

I don't think WMF supports arbitrary curves (eg beziers) so conversion of
such curves into series of short straight lines must occur. This is what
Adobe Illustrator does, for example.

WMF also doesn't include anything about the drawing's scale, which might
explain why GC did something odd.

The EMF supports both of these things, according to the URLs that John
posted.

>-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

Cheers,

Chris