OO.o and graphics (was Re: [vox-tech] openoffice stopped printing)

[Jonathan Stickel]

Henry House wrote:
<snip>
> On a related note, I have also been having a frustrating time working with
> graphics in OO. I have about 20 plots of economic data. I generated these
> using gnuplot --- perhaps you saw my previous messages about that. Despite
> gnuplot's quirky interface and documentation, its output quality rocks
> pretty hard. I tried doing one plot in OO and quickly gave up after I ended
> up with something that resembled a child's toy dataplot. 
> 
> The frustration is does not support any decent vector format! Rasterizing my
> plots is not a good option, since the printed output need to look decent.
> OO does not know how to rasterize EPS on-screen, so EPS graphic objects in
> OOWriter look very ugly, though they print at high quality. OO does not
> support SVG at all. The only choice is EMF (enhanced windows metafile),
> which displays nicely on-screen, though its print quality is inferior to
> EPS. 
> 
> I went with it anyway, since my clients to be able to work with my document
> using their proprietary windows software. I suspect that EMF is the
> best-supported format on windows and that EPS is risky. I can't test this
> because my office is all-Linux now. I am interested in others' observations
> about exchanging graphics embedded in word-processor documents across
> platforms.
> 

The fact that OO.o does not display imported EPS graphics on-screen is a 
PITA.  However, you can export to pdf where the graphics do show and are 
high quality.  But this doesn't help much either if your clients need to 
edit your documents, and I suppose Latex is out of the question ;)

I'm curious:  how did you convert EPS to EMF?

Jonathan