Word X's fuzzy printing of pdfs and other graphics

[Nate Goldshlag]

Word X's handling of graphics is so frustrating. If I create something
using OmniGraffle (text + graphics) and export as pdf and open it in
Adobe Reader and print, it prints fine. But if I drag the pdf into
Word X it prints fuzzy, with jaggies and low resolution.

Has anybody solved this horrible problem that has existed now for
years? It is very frustrating.

Nate

 

[Tim Murray]

Try saving to an EPS and import that instead.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Tim,

I've noticed you on the newsgroups before and you always seem to have
something useful to say, but it's sometimes hard to tell because you don't
quote back the post you're replying to. In this case, no big deal since
yours is the first reply, but if the thread continues, it will get trickier
without having the original post for reference. It's worse though in some
of your previous posts, where it's hard to tell which post in which
sub-thread you are replying to.

Thanks,

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

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[Tim Murray]

but it's sometimes hard to tell because you don't quote back

the post you're replying to

The reason why I usually don't is simply that (I believe) most newsgroup
users out there are using some kind of reader that shows at least some kind
of thread: Outlook, Agent, Hogwasher, Thoth, and so on. Some of those don't
show branched threads, so after the thread has branched off a few times then
I should include a quote but I tend to forget.

For posts with multiple issues ... someone posts problem A and problem B in
the same post -- I will quote chunks of it.

I guess I'm expressing my own views of quotes: I don't care for them because
they slow me down.

But point taken.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tim:

No, not here they're not. Most of our customers (more than 80 per cent) are
coming to us via either MS Communities web page or Google Groups. Neither
of them can thread reliably

Cheers

 

[dmcg]

Word X's handling of graphics is so frustrating. If I create something
using OmniGraffle (text + graphics) and export as pdf and open it in
Adobe Reader and print, it prints fine. But if I drag the pdf into
Word X it prints fuzzy, with jaggies and low resolution.

Has anybody solved this horrible problem that has existed now for
years? It is very frustrating.

Nate

I find that exporting it out of Omnigraffle as a tiff file is more
reliable than a pdf, png or jpeg file. Omnigraffle saves in tiff and
follows my directions to eliminate the border more reliably and with
sharper images than most any other method. The eps export works great
in Word, but in my experience the resulting file is at least twice as
large as the same quality tiff file. That makes large Word documents
even more difficult to manage.