On 30/04/2005, at 18:07, Ray Forma wrote:
Am I doing something wrong, or is Micro$oft protecting Windows?
1 I create a M$ Word document that has imbedded in amongst the text
some Adobe PhotoShop .psd bitmaps and Adobe Illustrator .ai vector
images.
2 Print the M$ Word document to a PostScript laser. The images are
fuzzy, as if the printer was using 72dpi preview images.
Ray, what you see is a painful problem with Word that I've been dealing
with for several years. It's handling of vector images is rather awful.
Having said that, printing to a postscript printer should work, and I
think there is a way around your problem (though you may not like it).
My experience is with .eps files inserted from Illustrator -
Annoyingly, Word only ever displays the previews in the document, but
when printing to a postscript printer, you get full resolution.
Printing to file gives you previews only. At least in Word 2004, using
the Acrobat Convert to PDF function from within Word produces
full-resolution images. (I can't recall the behaviour in v.X)
So for the Illustrator files, you could save them as .eps instead of
.ai and you will get full resolution on a postscript printer. In my
experience .eps files are perfectly fine as a native Illustrator format
(so you can go back and edit them), but I'm sure others here have more
informed opinions on that. I think you will need to flatten your
photoshop files and save them as (say) .tiff
Also, make sure you have all the updates to Office v.X installed. I
think the most recent version is 10.1.5.
Oh - I just had a play with Pages, and it handles transparent .ai, .eps
and .psd files superbly, though that may not be a solution for you..
-Josh
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