# veiwing  eps files in word

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2004, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veiwing-eps-files-in-word/270579 "2004-10-22T09:36:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veiwing-eps-files-in-word/270579/1 "2004-10-22T09:36:20Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veiwing-eps-files-in-word/270579/2 "2004-10-22T09:48:31Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veiwing-eps-files-in-word/270579/3 "2004-10-22T09:58:19Z")

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Try c&p’ing into powerpoint, it can handle eps files. Or, failing that, download ghostview (and ghostscript) from [here](http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get46.htm), and use that. Its a postscript interpreter for Windows, and will allow you to print both eps and ps files to normal windows printers.

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**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veiwing-eps-files-in-word/270579/4 "2004-10-23T14:07:25Z")

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