Re: [WinMac] cross-platform EPS

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:55:28 -0500

At 2:56 PM -0500 12/15/99, Victor Forberger wrote:
>But, do desktop publishing programs, e.g. PageMaker, allow pdf's to be
>imported? Unfortunately, I'm using Quark 3.1 for my own work, and I
>believe the graphics I am preparing will be used mostly in Word97 and
>PageMaker for Windows 6.0. If these programs do import pdf's, then your
>suggestion is a wonderful solution.

        PageMaker will import a PDF file, as will Quark (assuming
that you have the latest set of XTensions). For Word, however your
out of luck.

>PS- Even if the programs do not import pdf's, I just might create a pdf
>anyway that could copied and then pasted into the respective program
>from Acrobat Reader.

        That will also work just fine....

>My limited experience is that tiff images
>converted to pdf and then to PICT or WMF do not fare well, but the
>graphics I need to make should not include any tiffs.

        That's because TIFF's are BITMAP images - NOT vector images
like PDF/EPS/PICT/WMF.

Leonard

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