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Illustrator as an inserted object
I would like to insert an Illustrator file as an object into a Word 2003
document. I do not see "Adobe Illustrator" on the list of available object types; however, I do see "Adobe Photoshop" on that list. I see no entries on this topic in any Adobe forums or any Microsoft forums. According to Microsoft, the Illustrator object should appear on the list if it were properly installed on my machine; although, I begin to understand that there may be problems with MS graphics filters and Illustrator. Does MS Word simply ignore Illustrator? I installed Creative Suite CS2 onto my windows xp machine several months ago; and I have been using Illustrator 12 with no troubles. I would appreciate any comments or references to technical docs. |
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Hello Red
RedRegulus wrote: I would like to insert an Illustrator file as an object into a Word 2003 document. I do not see "Adobe Illustrator" on the list of available object types; however, I do see "Adobe Photoshop" on that list. I see no entries on this topic in any Adobe forums or any Microsoft forums. According to Microsoft, the Illustrator object should appear on the list if it were properly installed on my machine; although, I begin to understand that there may be problems with MS graphics filters and Illustrator. Does MS Word simply ignore Illustrator? I installed Creative Suite CS2 onto my windows xp machine several months ago; and I have been using Illustrator 12 with no troubles. I would appreciate any comments or references to technical docs. Sorry, I don't have any references. Before digging further, I would ask myself why you really wanted to do that in the first place? The benefit of being able to "doubleclick and edit in Illu" must be weighed against increase in filesize (compared to, say, exporting from Illu in a sensible format and that directly, or even link to it). And to the fact that the document will most probably not work at all on a system w/o Illu installed; and whether it works on a system with different OS/Office/Illu installed, well, remains to be seen, too ... :-) Also, you would be best off to save the Illu file externally anyway. Word has (historically) never been a good container for "original" graphic files. 0.2cents Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Robert,
I have driven myself to drink while contemplating those issues about size and portability! I like to embed certain drawings, and other foreign documents like Excel worksheets, in small MS Word documents because I want the computer to handle as many housekeeping chores as possible. It is much easier to manage the workflow, ie, keep track of related ideas, if I let MS Word contain the foreign document. Of course, I could create a hyperlink to an illustrator file that I keep in the same directory as the Word doc. But that creates the problem of seeing the illustration when I am viewing the Word doc. I want to imitate the age-old process of viewing paper on my screen. In fact, to allow a short digression, last year I started using two screens. I wish I could easily attach a third and fourth screen to the laptop and docking station I use at work. That is the way to create a desktop truly analogous to a real desktop on which I can spread-out several documents, books, notepads, etc. So, I am trying to simplify my interaction with a complex document written with Word. By truly embedding files, I imitate the way I naturally interact with documents. The trade-off are those computer science issues, but computers were made to simplify work for the human operator at their own expense. Also, I don't want to repaste an image of a foreign document every time I make a change. After all, I could create that independent file and then export to BMP or WMF. But that is transferring responsibility to me rather than leaving it to the computer. After saying all this, I must say that yesterday I opened an old Word document that I created in Word 2000. I found an embedded Illustrator file! It was so nice to read that document as if it were published on paper. That means that something changed from Word 2000 to Word 2003. Now that I have opened the old file in the new application, I can no longer double-click to launch the embedded diagram in Illustrator. Somewhere, there must be a way to register Illustrator with Word 2003!! RedRegulus |
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