EPS graphics in Word--can't see them!

[jaruk]

I am experiencing what appears to be inconsistent handling of EPS files by
Word. At first I was able to insert EPS graphics, see them, and resize them.
Then I was not able to see them in the Print View of the document--only their
bounding box was visible and it would allow me to resize it at least. Now not
only can I not see them, I can't resize them by grabbing the box corners. As
far as I can tell the "Preferences" are all set correctly. Printing works
fine, but I need to see the images on screen to be able to work with the
documents. Am I doing something wrong, or is it the way Word operates that's
the problem?
I am using Word 2003 on XP Pro.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Whether you can see the graphic can also depend on whether or not a
placeable header image was included in the file; this is a low-resolution
graphic that will be displayed regardless of whether or not you have a
PostScript printer selected and is also what will print if you print to a
non-PS printer.

 

[frma]

None of the replies yet give you the whole picture.
With Office 2000, Microsoft introduced a new eps import filter that no
longer uses the low res preview information in the eps file for screen
preview. It parses the actual postscript instead. The preview is only used if
you print to a non-postscript printer.
I have a lot of eps files in my work created as eps files with Arts&Letters
drawing program. They used to show the screen preview but this no longer
works with the new eps import filter, although the files still work fine for
printing.
The eps filter is called epsimp32.flt and should be installed in something
like C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt. Check the size
of this file: the new filter is 416K while the old one (pre-Office 2000) is
76K. If you can get hold of the old filter you could try replacing the new
with the old (make a copy first!). Works for me with my old eps files, but
unfortunately the old filter doesn't work with some newer eps files from
other sources.