Re: [Sheflug] Windows graphics formats

[Richard Fletcher <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 7:46 pm, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> Hi all,
>     Having being severely frustrated translating all my work to Office
> 2000 from Latex, I have encountered a problem (well, several carloads,
> but this is the most vexing one): I produce tons of graphs using
> gnuplot. These are usually ps/eps files, which are a joy to use in
> LaTeX. However, it is impossible to use this format in Word. So far, I
> have exported them as PNG, and that works. On the other hand, it is
> not possible to edit these files (which can be easily translated into
> files I can edit with xfig) in Word/PPoint. Usually, little things,
> such as changing the labels in a graph, and that kind of thing, might
> be required. At present, this is not possible. Other things which
> aren't possible are rotations of the files (don't ask why!!!!), and
> that sort of things.
>
>     My question hence is: can I convert these files into a
> <em>decent</em> WMF files? I have tried PhotoPaint, but I run into a
> situation when I try to save as either WMF or enhanced WMF: the text
> in the graphs gets all garbled up.
>
>     Anyone have any views on this ?
>     José

I swear to god I got eps/ps graphs loaded  with the uni's version of word. 
They were probably generated by Maple (A maths program) I shall have a look 
for you tommorrow to see how I did it.

bye

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.oOO-Richard-Sheffield-UK-OOo.

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