You seem to forget that
(1) This is a GRAPHICS forum, specifically a forum about the family of programs known as "Adobe PhotoShop" … and
(2) Micro$crew has virtually NO knowledge about how to design and develop any kind of graphics program(s) … and
(3) As "Eric Gill" has posted, the referenced Micro$cum programs "do a whole bunch of things to the graphics when they are placed in (Micro$urf Orifice Programs), none of them good …
and
(4) The only way that Micro$crew has been able to market **any** kind of graphics program, is to license it from a third party, OR purchase that "third party" that actually *does* know how to write a graphics program. This goes for **all** of the M$ graphics programs that I know about … including items such as M$ PhotoEditor, M$ Visio, M$ PowerFart, and etcetera.
(5) Micro$crew Wurd is particularly bad in this respect. If anyone should furnish a graphic … for any purpose … as an embedded graphic in a Wurd DOC file … that graphic should remain there as it’s final resting place.
"Eric Gill" is absolutely correct when he says
(A) As far as graphics go, both suck at anything beyond low-end office printing, and they aren’t very good at that.
and
(B) Have the client furnish a PDF prepared using the ‘PrePress’ settings …. Unless you can get the originals (graphics files), that’s as good as it gets.
If you feel otherwise, it just shows that you have NEVER tried to obtain professional quality output from graphics that have been mangled by a Micro$urf Orifice Program. [Incidentally … both "Eric Gill" and I *have* done professional quality output … although in my case NOT from any of the Micro$crew Orifice Programs.]
OH … and don’t even think about trying to get four-color (aka CMYK) output from *any* of the above referenced M$ programs. Pub$lasher makes a half-assed attempt at providing CMYK and spot color capability … but it usually causes more problems than it solves! [FWIW … in case you don’t know, the CMYK format is *necessary* if your graphics are going to be printed on one of those things called a "printing press."]
"Sami" wrote in message
You still use Outlook Express as your newsreader…
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
I’m tired of all this MS-bashing, even it many times happens for a
reason.
Sami