Install PS printer on your windows machine. Print to a file to make a PostScript file. On Linux PS files can be converted to CGM using ps2edit on command line or interactively using vector drawing program "sketch". I think that there is free plug-in for MS Word to import PS files. Google for it.
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 10:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a > Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, > however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to > generate PDFs. This is all well and good, but I now need to insert these > diagrams in Word and modify them, which sucks. > > It seems that the only vector formats Word understands are CGM, WMF, and > EMF. I took the PDFs I'd produced over to a Debian box and looked into > pstoedit. Unfortunately, its CGM output is mediocre (did terrible things to > fonts) and I had to use acroread to convert the PDF to PS before using it. > (It claims it works on PDF, and it should since it is based on ghostscript, > but it did not like these PDFs.) Another try was using pstoedit to convert > to an xfig file, then use fig2dev to convert to EMF, but that was even > worse. Even the xfig file looked crappy. I suspect the problems with > pstoedit had more to do with acroread's conversion to PS, but I'm not sure. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to translate from PDF to CGM, > WMF, or EMF? > > --Greg > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
