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Subject:RE: Word and eps From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"'Jennifer O Neill'" <jennifer -dot- oneill -at- village -dot- uunet -dot- be>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 May 2000 15:56:48 -0400
Why not just import the EPS files by reference into MS word.
I strongly recommend that you do not convert the vector-format EPS to bitmap
formats, such as BMP, TIFF, GIF, and, heaven forbid, JPEG.
Best regards.
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer O Neill [SMTP:jennifer -dot- oneill -at- village -dot- uunet -dot- be]
> Hi all,
>
> I've been given a few eps files of pictures to use in a Word97 document.
> The
> pictures are line drawings with no text. What's the best way of handling
> eps's in Word docs? I tried exporting them in Adobe Illustrator as bmp's
> but
> the quality is poorish. The manual will eventually by printed as pdf.
