Havard Graphic and Word

[bbrock]

My company purchased Harvard Graphs Advanced Presentations V3.0 for the
reason we originally had Harvard Graphs 3.0 on our old pcs. The pcs were
upgraded to xp and office 2003, but the orginal graphs program was not
compatible. I can copy the image into word with the advanced presentation;
but if I use a gradient in the image, that part of the image does not appear
(using window metafile). If I copy it as a bitmap the image appears jagged
and distorted. What would be a good suggestion, since my company doesn't
want to lose any of the graphics.

 

[Mary Sauer]

A draw program such as Corel, Illustrator and the like would be your best solution.
I have the old Harvard Graphics 3.0 and paste my graphs with no problems into Word.
They retain their gradients.
Microsoft's Acrylic (beta) is available for download. You can paste your image into
it and save as...
A large download, a large learning curve
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/

My copy of Harvard Graphics came with Harvard F_X. For its time it was a super draw
program, do you still have your copy? Could be your answer.

 

[bbrock]

The copy we have came on the large floppies and our pcs don't have that type
of hardware anymore, so even if we still have Harvard F_X we couldn't use it.
Do you think the graphics from the older program will be compatible with
Corel, Illustrator?

 

[bbrock]

I apologize, the orginal software was Harvard Graphics for Windows 1.03.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You are saying you can paste these images into Word as a .wmf from your current
Harvard setup, there should be no reason why you couldn't paste them into a draw
program.
As far as that goes, you can ungroup the pasted object in Word, select the segment
that lost its gradient and fill it with one in Word's fill effects.
Can you send me one of the images?
gsauer at columbus dot rr dot com

 

[bbrock]

Do you want me to send it too you pasted in a word document or do you want
the HG file? the extension is .PR4.