At 6:58 PM -0400 9/7/08, Darcy James Argue wrote:
For the record: I have learned that Word 2008 fixes the longstanding
problem with EPS on-screen. It also fixes the problem I was having
with generating a PDF from a Word document that includes EPS
graphics.
Cheers,
- Darcy
Good news for many people, no doubt, but please be warned that Word
2008 (for Mac) probably shares the same problem as Word 2007 (for
Windows), in that it saves files in a new .docx format that cannot be
opened in ANY PREVIOUS VERSION OF WORD. It also messes up some math
stuff and/or symbols, but I haven't encountered that.
I discovered the problem a year ago, when students using new Windows
computers started sending me homework files that I COULD NOT OPEN! I
did track down a converter on the MS website, but it's a beta version
and I hesitate to trust it. And in my research trying to figure out
what had happened, I also discovered that a number of scholarly
journals, for whom accuracy is extremely important, had flat out
started refusing to accept manuscripts in the new .docx format.
Once again, Microsoft moves to take over the world, since we barely
stopped them from taking over the Internet with their buggy Explorer
and Outlook Express. But no backward compatibility is good marketing
but very poor planning. Like Finale.
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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of jazz musicians.
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