[Ti] [OT] Microsoft Office : PC versus Mac

[Michael Bigley]

>Which is a long way from being able to render embedded Vision 
>drawings in Word documents on the Mac, sadly.

I actually disagree with this statement. I was trying to keep quiet 
on this thread, but as an old-time prepress geek, this is one of the 
things that is a real pet peeve.  There are SEVERAL standard, 
universally accepted file formats for images that will not just show 
up on the screen and print to your inkjet or laser printer. TIF, EPS, 
JPG are the most common.

Microsoft has never adhered to any standards but their own, and they 
have hosed lots of us by allowing people to place "BAD" art in their 
applications. Now I will say that I am puritanical in this respect; I 
was upset when Quark allowed placement of native .PSD files instead 
of requiring the files to be saved out in a format that can be 
accepted by imagesetters or digital platemakers.

What is sad to me is that:
A) A program that is at the level that Visio claims to be (I have 
never used it); does not support an export into a common image format 
or

B) That someone who is designing rather complex technical structures 
with Visio can't figure out how to export their images in an common 
format (if Visio does support it) AND

C) That Microsloth continues to allow placement of image data that 
more often than not renders their files pretty much useless except in 
a scope (albeit a broad one) of printing to office or home printing 
devices under 600 dpi.

There are work arounds to the above problem, but that is even further 
off topic and are not important to this issue.

 From my perspective, it is a good thing that Macs can't see native 
Visio files in Word documents.  At least Mac users know ahead of time 
there are problems with the file.

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