On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:27 PM, stephen e. schwartz wrote: > Word 08 now behaves more or less as expected. I had been motivated > to get it because it is the first OSX word app that handles quartz > pdf from the clipboard. It does that very well. when I use the > built in print to pdf it renders very high quality graphics, > equivalent to what I had come to expect with eps on word 5 (a 1992 > piece of software, I might note, but not quartz pdf savvy). If you would like fine control in trading off file size vs. graphic quality in your PDF, you can use OS X's Colorsync utility to do this. See: http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=360 ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________