what format is Word Art?

[angler2229]

I have some clients who insist having Word Art pasted into their PageMaker documents. As you know PM doesn't like anything other than Tiff or EPS files. I can't make pdf's of their files until I remove the Word Art. I then tried to copy Word Art from Word and save it as a 300 dpi Tiff in PhotoShop Elements. But, when I File> Place into PM, the graphic result has a bad case of the jaggies.

The screen version of Word Art has jaggies in Word but prints smoothly. In PM it prints just like its screen version. I am printing to a Xerox Docuprint 2025 with 32mb of ram.

Any suggestions, or should I just let this account go down the tubes?

Daniel

 

[tviman]

I think that word art images are wmf or emf files. But you say that Pagemaker won't use anything but tif or eps formats. If you're talking about Adobe Pagemaker, then your statement is not true. You can place any graphic format in Pagemaker including JPG, GIF, and BMP. There is something you should be aware of when placing any image in Adobe Pagemaker - make sure all your images are the same resolution, and make sure your Pagemaker document resolution matches your images. Although the printed document will look fine, if the resolutions don't match then the imnages will appeara out-of-focus in the screen. (Adobe Pagemaker's default document resolution is 96 dpi.)

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