Office 2004 poor handling of graphics

[Nate Goldshlag]

Microsoft's handling of graphics is still shoddy in Office 2004. PDF
files, which print fine from Acrobat Reader and Preview, when inserted
into Word still print fuzzy. EPS files, which when double clicked will
be converted into PDF files by the system and opened in Preview, still
have a box around them when they are inserted into Word because there
is no TIFF or PICT preview. Nothing is visible. Graphics copied and
pasted from OmniGraffle prints fuzzy in Word. To get graphics from
OmniGraffle into Word I am still using the same clumsy workaround I
have been using:
1. Export as EPS (no preview)
2. Use Graphic Converter to insert a TIFF preview in the EPS file
3. Insert into Word and a low resolution, jaggy preview appears but
it prints OK.

It looks like I have shelled out over $200 for nothing. I was sure
that by now Microsoft would handle graphics correctly.

Nate

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Microsoft's handling of graphics is still shoddy in Office 2004. PDF
files, which print fine from Acrobat Reader and Preview, when inserted
into Word still print fuzzy. EPS files, which when double clicked will
be converted into PDF files by the system and opened in Preview, still
have a box around them when they are inserted into Word because there
is no TIFF or PICT preview. Nothing is visible. Graphics copied and
pasted from OmniGraffle prints fuzzy in Word. To get graphics from
OmniGraffle into Word I am still using the same clumsy workaround I
have been using:
1. Export as EPS (no preview)
2. Use Graphic Converter to insert a TIFF preview in the EPS file
3. Insert into Word and a low resolution, jaggy preview appears but
it prints OK.

It looks like I have shelled out over $200 for nothing. I was sure
that by now Microsoft would handle graphics correctly.

Nate

That's disappointing to hear. I use Office2001 on OS9. I ran across a problem with
graphics that a couple of people hear looked at and determined it was improper
garphic handling in Word.

It disappoints me because I as hoping that Office2004 would cure this problem.
Because I need it to. Many of the documents I receive or create have to have logos
in them and when convereted to PDF look lousey. So I can expect no improvement when
I go to 2004.

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[Jeff W.]

Microsoft's handling of graphics is still shoddy in Office 2004. PDF
files, which print fine from Acrobat Reader and Preview, when inserted
into Word still print fuzzy. EPS files, which when double clicked will
be converted into PDF files by the system and opened in Preview, still
have a box around them when they are inserted into Word because there
is no TIFF or PICT preview. Nothing is visible. Graphics copied and
pasted from OmniGraffle prints fuzzy in Word. To get graphics from
OmniGraffle into Word I am still using the same clumsy workaround I
have been using:
1. Export as EPS (no preview)
2. Use Graphic Converter to insert a TIFF preview in the EPS file
3. Insert into Word and a low resolution, jaggy preview appears but
it prints OK.

It looks like I have shelled out over $200 for nothing. I was sure
that by now Microsoft would handle graphics correctly.

I found the screen preview much improved. I switched from using tiffs
to using png files and they work great. EPS files don't work that
good in the windows version either.

JP