Topic awaiting preservation: Illustrator EPS not working in Office applications

What do I need to do to get Illustrator EPS files working in Office applications? Right now the EPS files just show up as blank white boxes as though there were no TIFF preview available.

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Which version of office, platform and what appliction are you saving the EPS from?

I would be sure to choose an older version of EPS, Version 6 would likely be the safest. To do this from illustrator CS requires you to use export and choose "Legacy EPS".

Just in case you don't allready know; An EPS can have a PICT or TIFF preview depending on your platform and applications. Now I haven't used the Mac version of office recently but I do know QuarkXpress (MAC) requires a Pict preview, unless it's has changed since version 4. Perhap the Mac version of office also requires it. Unfortunate the pc version of Illustrator only allows you to chooce a Tiff preview.

While it might not be much help to you. If you don't realy need the preview for printing to a non-postscript printer or positioning. You should beable to place the EPS with out a preview and still have it print it correctly, as most software simply embed the EPS files with in the fat postscript when the job is spooled to a postscript printer, which is the reason for using EPS in the first place.

When printing to a non-postscript printers most software simply prints EPS preview image. I doubt Office (Word etc..) is capable of parsing the actual EPS it's self. It would be best to open the EPS in illustrator or some other vector application that will allow you to save a WMF file which is Microsoft native vector/raster format.

J. Stuart J.

(Edited by jstuartj on 09-04-2004 04:07)

That worked. Legacy Illustrator 3.

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