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Re: CGM files [message #17802 is a reply to message #17668]

Fri, 05 November 1999 00:00

Pavel Romashkin
Messages: 166
Registered: April 1999

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rgs wrote:

> here's some free advice, for what it's worth:
> - wipe MSWord from your computer and mind
> - use LaTeX & includegraphics & ps !!!

Sorry, but for me this free advice is worth its free. I have Word, use
Word and it gets what I need done for me. For more sophisticated people,
I don't mind that you use anything that works for you, but this is not
yet a reason to throw away widely available and quitecommon package.

> It has been my experience that bitmaps/WMF/etc look Lousy
> in Word.

WMF and EMF are fully scalable vector file formats. At least on a PC and
at least for me, they print and scale fine from Word. I wrote more than
one paper this way and had no problems. The only time when this fails is
when you bring Word document with WMF or EMF onto Macintosh - there all
resolution in graphics is lost. As well as if you bring a Mac word
document with EPS pictures on a PC - pictures get screwed up. Given how
this two platforms are different, I don't expect this to work out. But
on one platform I never have problems.

> If you do follow this crooked path

Oh well; I am unlucky here, I have no freedom to buy whatever packages I
want or advised to own. For my simplistic publications (as well as for
many thousands other people) the pathetic Word works allright.

Cheers,
Pavel

P.S. If you want easy solutions and can do things your way, get a
secretary instead of LaTeX. Just give her text and pictures, tell her
what you need and when, and you don't even need to care which software
she will use :-)

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