enthios said:
This is related to some other threads I've read. I have graphics in the
Word doc created by OmniGraffle. When I try to view the document in a
Word Windows program, I get an error message that says it "QuickTime and a
TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture." So much for
cross platform document compatability!
I feel your pain. I have been there.
There are many slightly different flavours of tiff files. The problem
you are seeing may not be completely due to Windows being deficient.
Tiff is the safe way to go, inspite of your experience so far.
Unless you want super hi-res pixel perfect results I'd recommend you
save your graffle images as tiff images in RGB space. You may need to
experiment with pre-treating your images with GraphicConverter until
you find a form that works. GraphicConverter will fix up your tiffs to
remove compression and cover them in PC-friendly pixie dust.
I recently did a job which wanted to include eps from Graffle into Word
and have the work delivered to a PC environment where more work was
required. There were innumerable silly gotchas, not all of which I
found a reason for. I gave up on eps export because, although it
printed beautifully everywhere, I could not find a method for
generating a good looking tiff preview for people looking at the work
onscreen.
I tried 600dpi tiff, but that intermittently displayed nothing but a
placeholder over on the dark side, so in the end it was 300 dpi tiffs
in RGB space, not CMYK.
I had to give up on PDF too. There was something funny with the PDF
made with print to PDF from OmniGraffle that was breaking my printer (I
blame the sad Postscript emulation in my cheapy printer). Not only
that, but the gradients went wrong.
This was with OmniGraffle Pro 3 and Word v.X here and various flavours
of modern-ish corporate Office over there.
The whole job started with a Powerpoint file which would unfailingly
crash Powerpoint on my Mac
I installed QuickTime on the Windows machine (along with iTunes, force
fed) but nothing happens .
Any suggestions? I really don't want to save each individual chart as a
separate file and re-import!
With 20-20 hindsight, you are snookered. Run some experiments on
different flavours of tiff export from OmniGraffle, import to Word and
transport to PC Word till something works. Then go back and do your
illustration export from OmniGraffle again. Don't even think of
rescuing your images once they have been through Word unless you are
really desperate. In an argument with John McGhie on here, I did
succeed in doing so on some non-Graffle tiffs by passing the result
through GraphicConverter, altering the resolution without resampling
and then resizing the picture before re-placing them in Word. It was
the sort of thing you would only do to win an argument. I lost.
The whole business of placing images in Word is a dog's breakfast. By
no means all of the blame lies at Microsoft's feet.
