EPS files in Word 2008

[bunnsrus]

I have an EPS file - my company logo with graphic and text. Word 2008 renders the original file (blue & white) into black background, sepia tones and white lettering. However the icon of the file on my desktop does show the EPS graphic in blue but on opening full doc the colors aren't rendered correctly.

 

[John McGhie]

It sounds as though the EPS may be in CMYK colour standard.

Microsoft Office currently requires 24-bit RGB colour.

Let me know if that's not the problem...

Cheers

I have an EPS file - my company logo with graphic and text. Word 2008 renders
the original file (blue & white) into black background, sepia tones and white
lettering. However the icon of the file on my desktop does show the EPS
graphic in blue but on opening full doc the colors aren't rendered correctly.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[bunnsrus]

Hey John,
My word 2004 document rendered the EPS graphic correctly. Its only when I upgraded that the color has drifted. Did Microsoft change colour standards from 2004 to 2008?

Thanks Mate - from Sydney originally, in California for 20 years...

 

[John McGhie]

Ah! Thanks. No, the colour standard is the same.

This is another Word 2008 vector graphics bug.

Word 2008 has a new vector graphics engine (the one that does Smart Art) and
it is having a few teething problems.

Any minute now, one of the Microsoft developers will be in contact with you
looking for a copy of one of your files so they can fix this issue.

Cheers

Hey John,
My word 2004 document rendered the EPS graphic correctly. Its only when I
upgraded that the color has drifted. Did Microsoft change colour standards
from 2004 to 2008?

Thanks Mate - from Sydney originally, in California for 20 years...

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[bunnsrus]

John,
Have not heard from the bug-fixers.. The fix/patch may take forever. Is there any work around short of uninstalling this version of Office—and going back to the earlier version, if it is backward compatible..

thanks

 

[John McGhie]

No, there's no work-around.

The patch should be with us in March.

Before you go back to the earlier version, you may want to save a copy of
the document in .doc format.

If you have the converters installed, Word 2004 can read .docx just fine.

I would leave both versions installed. The only restriction is: don't allow
two versions of Entourage to run, because 2008 converts the database so that
2004 can't read it.

Hope this helps

John,
Have not heard from the bug-fixers.. The fix/patch may take forever. Is there
any work around short of uninstalling this version of Office—and going back to
the earlier version, if it is backward compatible..

thanks

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia