Can't word handle eps files? In the WYSIWYG it will show the embedded preview as far as I recall, so the image will seem empty if their is no preview embedded or blurry if the preview is blurry. For printing however (including to pdf) it uses the vector version. Of course, eps can't handle transparency.
Stan West wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Christopher Barker<chris.bar...@noaa.gov> >> > wrote: > >>> MS simply doesn't lay well with open vector formats, I think PNG with >>> the right DPI, etc is still probably your best bet. >>> >>> >> Yes, I think I have to stick to this option >> > > I agree; in my experience, a bitmap such as PNG at about 600 dpi is the most > robust, straightforward method for getting a reasonable image in Word on both > screen and paper. By the way, I seem to recall noticing differences across > versions of Word in the way they perform smoothing, anti-aliasing, or > interpolation on displayed bitmaps. I can't remember which version(s) blurred > them excessively, but Word 2003 is satisfactory to me. > > In case you still want to go for vector rendering, I'll mention that I have > had some success with tools to convert to EMF. One way to go is pstoedit, but > you already mentioned having difficulty getting it working. (Anyway, you > might have needed the shareware EMF driver > [http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/plugins/], depending on your > quality standards.) Another possibility is Adobe Illustrator; it can read EPS > and export to EMF, and I've been pleased with the fidelity. I've found that > it doesn't always identify the fonts correctly, but I've worked around that > with Illustrator's font replacement command. A third approach (untested by > me) is to install a virtual EMF printer, such as > http://emfprinter.sourceforge.net/ or > http://www.mabuse.de/tech-vprinter.mhtml. Save your figure as a PDF, open in > a PDF application, and use the print dialog with your EMF printer to write an > EMF file. (It might also work to save as EPS, open in GSView, then print.) > You might end up with a bounding box as large as your paper size, but in Word > you could manually crop to the actual image. With any of these approaches, I > recommend watching for defects. I've found that such conversions often get > something wrong--the coordinates of the primitives get rounded (to the nearest > 1/72 inch, I'm guessing), or you get hairlines instead of the line width you > wanted, or the image size is wrong. > > If the screen display is less important than a hard copy or a PDF version of > your document, the following might work for you: Save your figure as EPS and > place that in your Word document. Older versions of Word will display a box > placeholder, while newer versions of Word contain a simple PostScript > processor and will display a bitmap that bears a passing resemblance to your > figure. Regardless, the EPS is still there and should be delivered to PS > devices, such as a physical printer or a virtual printer like PDFCreator. If > you want to get really fancy, you can embed a high-resolution bitmap into the > EPS file as a preview and get a better on-screen version, too, although with > newer Word versions you might need to defeat the built-in PS engine for your > preview to prevail. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
