Jaggy ESP Graphics in Word '04 w/ Mac OS X 3.9

[Novatee]

I have thousands of Word dociments containg eps graphic images. They
have printed out perfectly w/ an HP postscript priner up through Mac OS
9. When I print them out in OS 3.9 with MS Word '04 the images are very
crude and jagged.

I have seen other references to this problem on the 'net. However, I
have seen no suggested solutions. I can't believe that Microsoft and/or
Apple would not support the printing of eps graphics.

Thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have thousands of Word dociments containg eps graphic images. They
have printed out perfectly w/ an HP postscript priner up through Mac OS
9. When I print them out in OS 3.9 with MS Word '04 the images are very
crude and jagged.

I suspect I've already seen something similar. Word only displays the
embedded preview of the eps file, ot the file itself.

I have seen other references to this problem on the 'net. However, I
have seen no suggested solutions. I can't believe that Microsoft and/or
Apple would not support the printing of eps graphics.

I fear Word simply prints the image as it appears. I know I somehow
worked around the problem by "printing" the file to a postscript file
then flashing it to PDF using Acrobat Distiller.
The system version of the "PDF converter" didn't do the trick. The
resulting PDF had only the preview of the images embeded. Only Acrobat
allowed me to actually get it. I fear that for printing it would more or
less be the same.

I'm really sorry I can;t find any better option right now. I hope
someone will chime in to offer you a better alternative that flashing to
PDF through Acrobat to print from there :-(

Corentin

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

An EPS graphic consists of two "layers" -- the display layer (usually called
the "Preview" or "Header" layer, and the encapsulated postscript information
that produces the printed version of the image.

The placable header layer is usually a low-resolution TIFF bitmap used
purely to show where the image will appear.

Word has a long-standing conflict in the printing routine of Mac OS X that
causes it to print the wrong layer on some computers with some printer
drivers to some printers.

Sometimes you can fix this by deleting and re-inserting the EPS image. You
need to save and close the document between the delete and the re-insert.

Hope this helps

I have thousands of Word dociments containg eps graphic images. They
have printed out perfectly w/ an HP postscript priner up through Mac OS
9. When I print them out in OS 3.9 with MS Word '04 the images are very
crude and jagged.

I have seen other references to this problem on the 'net. However, I
have seen no suggested solutions. I can't believe that Microsoft and/or
Apple would not support the printing of eps graphics.

Thanks

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