Can you use PSE to convert a bitmap to a vector format?

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Steven Folberg
Dec 28, 2003
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Hi,

I have a professionally designed, black-and-white logo in tiff, jpg and gif formats. I need to get it into a vector format that Word (specifically, Word X for the Mac) will be able to read. I want to be able to resize the graphic as needed without it going all jaggy on me. The only vector format I see in PSE’s Save As options is "Photoshop EPS." The dialog box for this Save Of is full of options that I don’t understand. I tried saving as an EPS file. (I should add that I’m printing to an ink-jet printer from a Mac running Panther.) Anyway, the graphic printed, but with all of the jagged aliased artifacts that I didn’t want. And with other options, Word won’t read it at all.

Can somebody enlighten me a little? 😉 BTW, the graphic artist who designed the logos sent me some other EPS files, but Word won’t read those — it simply inserts them as a long text file with Postcript instructions in it.

Thanks!!!

Steve
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JP White
Dec 28, 2003
Steven Folberg wrote:

Hi,

I have a professionally designed, black-and-white logo in tiff, jpg and gif formats. I need to get it into a vector format that Word (specifically, Word X for the Mac) will be able to read. I want to be able to resize the graphic as needed without it going all jaggy on me.

I think you’ll have to shop around for a utility. PSE can’t do this, it’s a raster based program. I’ve no idea how well PDF files scale, maybe save in PDF and see how this looks.

Can somebody enlighten me a little? 😉 BTW, the graphic artist who designed the logos sent me some other EPS files, but Word won’t read those — it simply inserts them as a long text file with Postcript instructions in it.

I presume he used a vector based program to create it. Maybe he could save in a vector format you are able to handle without having to buy the same program he used (which is probably expensive).

JP

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