| Re: color_quan(...., Cube=6) makes white white, but ... [message #30484 is a reply to message #30384] |
Tue, 30 April 2002 16:44   |
Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995
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"Steve Smith<steven_smith>" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:slrnacu5e9.e6b.nobody@pooh.nrel.gov...
> I'm speculating that perhaps the thing to do is create a postscript
> document by printing the Word document to a file (and massaging out
> the non-postscript commands WinXX sticks in) and converiting that
> directly to PDF.
Yes. I tried this yesterday and confirmed that this works. I created
an IDL EPS file, added a preview with GSview, imported it into Word,
printed the Word document to a file via a Windows Postscript printer
driver and then processed the resulting PS file using an automated
convertor we have here. (It uses Adobe Distiller, I think.) No need to
massage the PS file. Result: PDF document with nice vector diagram.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't fix the original problem: I need to give a
> figure that can be inserted into Word by a colleauge.
Hhmmm. Yes, this is a problem, Some possibilities:
- I used to have a third-party Word graphics filter that imported
Postscript in vector form. It's no longer available, however, and
your colleague is unlikely to have it installed in any case.
- Pstoedit can convert EPS to WMF or EMF. Unfortunately it doesn't
handle Postscript "image" elements, so it is of limited use.
= Corel Draw? Adobe Illustrator? I think both of these can import
EPS and export in various Word-friendly vector formats. They cost
serious money, though.
- When I flirted with Linux a few months ago I noticed that Linux
word processors could import EPS files. (This is a mixed blessing, I
might add, as complicated diagrams can slow down display badly.)
Perhaps there's one that imports EPS and exports Word?
Good luck.
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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha et tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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