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Best office vector format

Asked by Dženan Zukić

As neither MS Office nor Open Office support SVG, what is the best vector format for use in office applications?

I am currently using EPS with OOo, but those same EPSs cannot be opened in MS Office.

All the files I encountered looked incorrectly when exported to Enhanced Meta File (EMF).

PDF cannot be imported as picture in either office suite.

Any thoughts?

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Best Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine) said : 		#1

Dženan, upcoming 0.47 version has a much improved EPS exporter. We don't know when it will be available as a final version (later this year maybe). I probably should not encourage using unstable builds, but if you absolutely need it, you could try one of them.

As a last resort you could export to a 300dpi PNG and then downscale it in Writer or Word.

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Dženan Zukić (dzenanz) said : 		#2

Hm, delivery format for this paper (and most of others) is PDF. Therefore, to achieve high print quality with rasters, PDF grows to ~3MB, versus ~400KB when vectors are used.

As I said, EPS does import into OOo, so I am using that combination right now.

Thanks for the answer.

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Dženan Zukić (dzenanz) said : 		#3

Thanks Alexandre Prokoudine, that solved my question.