pictures look jaggad after upgrading to win XP

[Jesse]

I have hundreds of publisher files that were created on a
macintosh and ran great on publisher 2.0 on my old windows
3.1 machine. When I transfer these files to my new Windows
XP machine running Publisher 2000 all the embedded
pictures look jagged and print in very poor quality and
the font Helvetica-Narrow is replaced with something else.
I don't have the origional pictures or font. The graphics
manager tells me some of the pictures are EPS and the rest
it just shows two dashes for the type (--). The printer I
use is a LaserJet 4 Plus. Do I need some sort of
PostScript drivers? Is there a way to un-embed the
pictures to their origional quality? Also, where can I get
the font "Helvetica-Narrow"?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[Ed Bennett]

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I have hundreds of publisher files that were created on a
macintosh

My gosh, you should contact Microsoft about that - they'd be interested to
find out how you got a Mac copy of Publisher. They might even muy it off
you, as they have never produced a version of Publisher that runs on Mac
(apart from using a Windows emulator like Virtual PC)

and ran great on publisher 2.0 on my old windows
3.1 machine. When I transfer these files to my new Windows
XP machine running Publisher 2000 all the embedded
pictures look jagged and print in very poor quality and
the font Helvetica-Narrow is replaced with something else.

Helvetica is normally a non-Windows font (found on Macs and *nix machines) -
try replacing it with Arial.

I don't have the origional pictures or font. The graphics
manager tells me some of the pictures are EPS and the rest
it just shows two dashes for the type (--).

If the picture is embedded, it doesn't really matter whether you have the
original graphics or not.

The printer I
use is a LaserJet 4 Plus. Do I need some sort of
PostScript drivers?

Bingo. EPS is a PostScript format, and only prints at its original quality
when printed to a PostScript printer.

Is there a way to un-embed the
pictures to their origional quality?

You can un-embed them and they will open in a program like GSView to their
original quality, but they will still not show in Publisher at their
original quality.
What you see in Publisher is the low-resolution TIFF file preview image of
the PostScript file. When you print to a non-PostScript printer, all that
prints is the low-resolution preview. Solution: Get PostScript drivers.

Also, where can I get
the font "Helvetica-Narrow"?

You could ask in the alt.binaries.fonts newsgroup, or buy it online.
Helvetica Narrow is copyright of Adobe, and so may be installed with Adobe
software, and is found on Macs (Adobe love Mac). You can buy it for $21
here:
http://www.myfonts.com/PurchaseOptions?versionid[]=114801&ffs[]=win-ttf
I would try substituting the font with Arial Narrow.