.eps images

[Alyssa]

I would like to be able to view an .eps image in
powerpoint. I'm using Office 2000 Pro. I supposedly
installed the graphic filter but I still only see a text
box when I insert or choose to preview an eps image. How
do I make this work? Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Alyssa

 

[Ute Simon]

Alyssa,

I would like to be able to view an .eps image in
powerpoint. I'm using Office 2000 Pro. I supposedly
installed the graphic filter but I still only see a text
box when I insert or choose to preview an eps image. How
do I make this work? Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Alyssa

AFAIK PowerPoint 2000 didn't support eps images.

It definitely is possible with PPT 2002 (and 2003 of course), though
sometimes with some quality loss. Maybe the new viewer might help (I did not
test it yet ...)?

Regards,
Ute

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

I would like to be able to view an .eps image in

powerpoint. I'm using Office 2000 Pro. I supposedly
installed the graphic filter but I still only see a text
box when I insert or choose to preview an eps image. How
do I make this work? Your help is greatly appreciated!

Unlike most other graphics formats, EPS come in two sections:

- A preview image (that might be in TIF, WMF or Mac PICT format)
- The actual graphic in a kind of limited PostScript format

Most EPS have a preview image but it's not required. If there's no preview
image, most apps will display something like what you've described - a white
or gray box with some text in it (usually taken from the EPS file header so
you have some idea what's in it - or would if you had three heads and spoke
Martian Geek as your mother tongue. Most of us don't.)

Sounds like you have one that doesn't have a preview image.

If you're printing to a PostScript printer or Acrobat Distiller, give it a
shot anyhow. It'll generally be ok.

If you're doing a screenshow or printing to a non-PostScript printer, you'll
be better off skipping EPS altogether. All you'll get is the preview image.
Which ain't much if it isn't there.

 

[Jeroen Dekker]

If you need to do this on a regular basis, you could consider our
ps2vector software to batch convert your EPS graphics to EMF for
import into your PowerPoint slides. They'll display and print in
optimal quality, they'll be scalable and even editable in PowerPoint.
Vectors, images and text strings are all converted and preserved as
such.

ps2vector is a commercial product and has been around since 1995. We
can also convert from (multi-page) PDF. More info is at the URL below.
You're welcome to send me a sample EPS file for testing if interested.

Jeroen Dekker

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

AFAIK PowerPoint 2000 didn't support eps images.

PowerPoint has supported EPS to one degree or another since version 3 at
least, Ute.
Each version has its own little quirks, and you might have to choose EPS as
a custom install option, but the basic support's there.

 

[Ute Simon]

AFAIK PowerPoint 2000 didn't support eps images.

PowerPoint has supported EPS to one degree or another since version 3 at
least, Ute.
Each version has its own little quirks, and you might have to choose EPS as
a custom install option, but the basic support's there.

Steve,

maybe my answer was a bit too short - I could insert EPS images when working
with PPT 97 and PRINT them, but I only SEE them since I'm working with PPT
2002 (or maybe I have always used the wrong "sort" of EPS images without a
preview image, as I learned from your other posting now).

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Steve,

maybe my answer was a bit too short - I could insert EPS images when working
with PPT 97 and PRINT them, but I only SEE them since I'm working with PPT
2002 (or maybe I have always used the wrong "sort" of EPS images without a
preview image, as I learned from your other posting now).

Ute,

All installed PPT versions share the same graphics filters, so if you have
several PPT versions installed, odd things may happen. For example, I've
found that if both PPT 2002 and 2000 are installed, EPS will import into
both versions but won't print from 2000. In other words, the new EPS filter
is incompatible with the older PPT version.

With 2000 and before, if the EPS doesn't have a preview, you get the text
box instead, and that's what prints to a non-PostScript printer. If the
image has a preview, then that's what prints to a non-PostScript printer.
You don't get the real PS content of the EPS unless you print to a PS
printer (or Acrobat Distiller or some other PS interpreter)

One of those two things probably explains what you've seen, I think?