Does mac word 2004 support emf+?

[Bryan Ogawa]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out why my visio diagrams look bad in mac word 2004. I
am saving them as Enhanced Metafiles (.emf) from visio 2003 and importing
them on Word in windows. Then, I open up the document in word for mac, and
the graphics are all messed up looking?

Is this related to the visio knowledgbase article KB893473?

Any suggestions for how to work around this would be great. I cannot figure
out any way to do this from visio short of exporting gigantic TIFFs or PNGs.

 

[Bryan Ogawa]

Hi Bryan:

EMF is not a Mac-friendly format. EMF creates a picture using primitives
from the Windows GDI+ drawing set.

On the Mac, these get converted to PICT using QuickDraw. But the conversion
is by no means exact, because QuickDraw and EMF are not quite the same.

So yes, the KB article applies.

The solution would be to use EPS, if you can support that. EPS is
cross-platform and Mac-friendly.

In the next edition of Office on Mac and PC, SVG ought to work also.

Thanks. Unfortunately, Visio 2003 no longer supports EPS. Does anyone have a
suggestion from the Visio side for this? Is there an EMF to EPS converter
anywhere?

I have opened the SVG output of Visio using inkscape, and it looked rather
ugly. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Bryan

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Bryan,

Doesn't visio support save as web page? That should create pictures
that you can move across platforms.

-Jim