EPS image insert not working

[Greg Grusby]

Has anyone sucessfully inserted an Adobe illustrator EPS file into a Word
2004 Doc? I have tried saving as a regular CS eps, as well as a legacy ver.
8.0 eps file and each time Word make the art black and white and knocks it
out of a black box.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

-Greg

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Greg:

I won't swear to this, but there are two possible bones of contention...

1) Microsoft products will handle AI files only if they do NOT contain any
CMYK colour

2) Microsoft products will handle EPS files most successfully if the
placable header is black-and-white.

I would try some things:

1) Make sure there is no CMYK colour in the image. Max 24 bit colour, and
it must be RGB.

2) remove the AI format from the EPS.

3) Make sure the placable header is TIFF.

That *might* work...

Cheers

Has anyone sucessfully inserted an Adobe illustrator EPS file into a Word
2004 Doc? I have tried saving as a regular CS eps, as well as a legacy ver.
8.0 eps file and each time Word make the art black and white and knocks it
out of a black box.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

-Greg

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[Tim Murray]

Has anyone sucessfully inserted an Adobe illustrator EPS file into a Word
2004 Doc? I have tried saving as a regular CS eps, as well as a legacy ver.
8.0 eps file and each time Word make the art black and white and knocks it
out of a black box.

I maintain my own personal knowledgebase of good stuff to hang on to. The
good news is that I found the following:
====================

Abstract: Word cannot import CMYK image with QuickTime 6.4 installed.

Detail:

created in QT6.3 CMYK and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.3 CMYK and imported in QT6.4 FAILS
created in QT6.3 RGB and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.3 RGB and imported in QT6.4 works
created in QT6.4 CMYK and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.4 CMYK and imported in QT6.4 FAILS
created in QT6.4 RGB and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.4 RGB and imported in QT6.4 works

"Created in" and "imported in" refer to the environment; the version of
QuickTime installed at the time.

It appears that QT 6.4 kills Word's ability to import CMYK. It's not that
Word can't do it, period, it is just that it cannot do it with QuickTime 6.4
installed. I tried it with a Photoshop TIFF and it failed, too.
==================

The bad news is that silly me, I failed to indicate anything important, like
the platform, the version of Word, and the type of art file. I have a
daughter heading to college tomorrow, so you can see while I probably won't
experiment with figuring out the stuff I should have noted.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

I maintain my own personal knowledgebase of good stuff to hang on to. The
good news is that I found the following:
====================

Abstract: Word cannot import CMYK image with QuickTime 6.4 installed.

Detail:

created in QT6.3 CMYK and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.3 CMYK and imported in QT6.4 FAILS
created in QT6.3 RGB and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.3 RGB and imported in QT6.4 works
created in QT6.4 CMYK and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.4 CMYK and imported in QT6.4 FAILS
created in QT6.4 RGB and imported in QT6.3 works
created in QT6.4 RGB and imported in QT6.4 works

"Created in" and "imported in" refer to the environment; the version of
QuickTime installed at the time.

It appears that QT 6.4 kills Word's ability to import CMYK. It's not that
Word can't do it, period, it is just that it cannot do it with QuickTime 6.4
installed. I tried it with a Photoshop TIFF and it failed, too.
==================

The bad news is that silly me, I failed to indicate anything important, like
the platform, the version of Word, and the type of art file. I have a
daughter heading to college tomorrow, so you can see while I probably won't
experiment with figuring out the stuff I should have noted.

Have you tried Quicktime 6.5? On mac platform OSX Quicktime is up to 6.5.x

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[Tim Murray]

Have you tried Quicktime 6.5? On mac platform OSX Quicktime is up to 6.5.x

At the time I wrote it, QuickTime was at 6.4. I've not had time to dive into
it.