veiwing eps files in word

Factual Questions
1

I have a word document that has lots of graphics with embedded eps files. Unfortunately the files all say " Preview: this EPS picture was not saved with a preview included in it. Comment. This EPS picture will print to a postscript printer, but not to other kinds of printers." I dont have a postscript printer, but would also like to copy some of the pictures into a power point presentation

I have tried copying the file and pasting into programmes such as irfanview, but either nothing gets pasted, or just the above message.

any ideas? I cant seem to unembed each picture and save it as an eps file as there is no right click option for it. Fustrating

2

sort of sorted it out. In the end I exported teh word document as an PDF and then could cut the pictures from acrobat. It is not ideal as I suspect that I lose a lot of the resolution, but will do unless someone can come up with a lossless way

3

Try c&p’ing into powerpoint, it can handle eps files. Or, failing that, download ghostview (and ghostscript) from here, and use that. Its a postscript interpreter for Windows, and will allow you to print both eps and ps files to normal windows printers.

4

thanks angua. Pasteing into PP doesn’t work but ghostview looks more promising