Hi Jef, What version of Word are you using? I remember Office 2004 for Mac being particularly bad about image quality.
Anyway, Apple's Pages application will import your existing Word file (and even save in Word format, if that's important), and also allow you to place PDFs without any image degradation. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 17 Sep 2011, at 7:35 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > the degradation in image quality in word is remarkable, i just did > what you suggested and don't think there is any way this could be > better than the 1200 ppi tiffs. > > i generated a PDF of an image from graphic converter to PDF and > printed that (to paper); inserted the PDF at 100% in a word doc and > printed directly from word. the two are significantly different in > quality. generating a PDF from the word doc and printing that > produced the same quality (bad) as printing directly from word. > > seems the only way i could get higher quality would be to not use > word, but some other proper graphics programme like in design or > illustrator. > >> My suggestion is to not EPS from Finale. Instead, make a PDF, crop >> as needed, and insert the PDF graphics into the Word file. >> >> Or you could use a graphics program to convert the existing EPS files to PDF. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
