OmniGraffle to Word X best way?

[Jeremy Reichman]

I may be running into a problem due to using EPS Ghostscript (from the  
Gimp-Print site) rather than some other, possibly newer version.

However, if I take the default AppleScript I downloaded today from  
Joel, I still get a low-res color preview on-screen after placing the  
resulting preview-ready EPS in Word. The printouts look okay, but are  
not spectacular -- but that could be due to colors I've chosen (they  
look okay on-screen but were not designed for print).

I was also playing around with --gs-arg and --dpi-render to see if I  
could tweak the results. That didn't seem to do anything for the PICT  
output.

I tried using Adam's epstool command, and did get a monochrome (b/w  
only) bitmapped preview in Word. I tried switching to a TIFF 6 preview  
to get color, but of course that crashed Word on import. Sigh.

As a side note, I've reported this bug to Microsoft but I'm not sure if  
they recognize it as a bug (as I'm sure most of *us* do) or intend to  
fix it. I wouldn't hold my breath until they at least acknowledge the  
problem. BTW, the graphics importer code should be shared between all  
the Office apps, so expect the same benefits/problems throughout each  
app.

It seems like the best solution may come from the Omni side in a newer  
version of OG, if it can do things like Keynote does (as per earlier  
notes on this thread, and the recent one about PowerPoint imports).


On Jan 22, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Joel Page wrote:

> If it did, I have it here, and the good news that the recipe (involved  
> as it may be) does indeed work.
>
> A summary of Adam's steps:
>
> 1. Install GhostScript (http://www.ghostscript.com/). As mentioned  
> before, Fink has a package, I myself used the i-Installer available at  
> rna.nl (http://www.rna.nl/ii.html) with zero difficulty.
>
> 2. Install Epstool (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm)  
> as well, download the Unix tarball  
> (ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/epstool 
> -3.04.tar.gz), toss out the binary and via the Terminal navigate to  
> the folder that gets downloaded and type "make epstool" to create the  
> new binary.
>
> 3. The AppleScript attached will want epstool in /usr/local/bin/ so  
> you must be an admin to place it there (it might work elsewhere, I  
> haven't tested in other locations).
>
> 4. Take the attached script and put it in /Library/Scripts/Folder  
> Action Scripts/ (again, admin access is needed).
>
> 5. Make a folder to be the target for your EPS exports (local disks  
> only, it failed on a mounted NFS network home folder), and via the  
> contextual menu attach the script to the folder.
>
> 6. Export EPS files there, stand and be amazed.
>
> Massive kudos out to Adam, on a side note we've asked the fine folks  
> who make i-Installer to add Epstool to their list of packages and I've  
> asked the add-ons team to see if they can't make the process easier as  
> well.