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Re: [Sheflug] Windows graphics formats

Apologies If I'm missing something here, but the solution seems a bit
obvious... which normally means I'm missing something thats staring me
in the face !!! :)

Anyhow why not use The Gimp, it can convert between the file formats
you're using and the Micro$oft standard bmp files

Alan. 

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 20:46, 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
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