I have done a lot of work with Finale as EPS in Word. I find that I
can repeat the same steps exactly and sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn't (in the same Word doc). Although it is an extra step, I found
100% results if I opened the EPS files in Illustrator before dragging
into Word.

-Carolyn


On 12/27/05, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27 Dec 2005 at 10:01, Chuck Israels wrote:
>
> > On Dec 27, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Chuck,
> > >
> > > Are you on Mac?
> >
> > Yes, but I doubt that it's only an embedded fonts problem.  Staff
> > lines don't show up (for example).
> >
> > Can't let this stop me from working.
>
> The makes me think that perhaps you need to examine some of Word's
> settings for embedded graphics. I'm on Windows and so I can't give
> you any advice as to what to look for, but I have found that it's
> sometimes necessary to make adjustments to the embedded graphic
> properties. And I'm not using EPS.
>
> I use embedded TIFFs in Word, and Word is very good with the staff
> lines, however, it helps if you start out with post-Finale 2K staff
> line widths (I think that's the version where Finale's defaults
> changed; it was the version that introduced the Engraver font), so
> that there are more pixels to work with in the first place. It's also
> the case that the grayscale settings and some other embedded graphics
> settings make a difference as to how things are rendered.
>
> Of course, that all my be different with EPS, since EPS is s a
> different animal than a bitmapped graphic.
>
> But I would try searching for any options you have for controlling
> embedded EPS in Word, and see if there's anything you can tweak.
>
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