Printing to EPS file

[Mark]

In Office 2001, I was able to print to file a selected print area of
an Excel worksheet. I was able to print the area to a "Microsoft EPS
Mac Enhanced EPS" file. This was a handy feature that allowed me to
then use the EPS file for use in a page layout program such as Quark.

In Excel for OS X, this feature appears to not be available. I am
forced to do the following:
1. Print selected area to PostScript.
2. Distill PostScript file in Acrobat 6 Distiller.
3. From within Acrobat, save resulting PDF file to EPS.
4. Then import the EPS from Acrobat into my page layout program.

This makes for a lot of extra steps in what once was an easy method
for using spreadsheets as independent graphics for page layout
programs on the Mac.

Maybe I was one of the few who used this feature, but in the printing
world, this was an excellent method! Any ideas?

 

[Mark]

Also want to add that this worked in OS 9 primarily due to the Apple
Laserwriter printer driver, which goes way back. Hopefully, someone
from Microsoft's MacBU reads this stuff and can help me.