OT: Best Resolution Image File to Import into Word?

I looked at Kicad a few years ago and it wasn't very suitable for analog designs. The design team didn't seem to welcome such feedback. It was even worse for gEDA. So I moved on and settled for a new Eagle release.

Maybe. I prefer things to be simple and Eagle V7.2 only offers some of the usual Windows file options in the export dialog box. I will not upgrade past V7 because I do not like Autodesk's licensing model.

what's specific for analog design?

you can try it, eagle2svg-1.1.ulp

Good sharp line work requires a vector file format, not pixels. EMF files can contain either, so the generating software should use it in vector mode. Visio does output vectors, and others no doubt do.

A program that's not vector oriented can't "print" a vector file. There is, I think, some software that can sort of convert pixels to vectors somehow.

HPGL was of course vectors.

I think EMF is the same as (similar to) WMF (windows meta file.) I have no idea about various formats, but for word docs I save all my drawings, line art, graphs as *.wmf, nice small files that scale well and always seem to look nice. You can't print from wmf's you have to load it into another program.. Word for instance. :^)

George H.

It couldn't easily keep multi-instance parts sorted. In analog you cannot have it that, for example, the re-numberer mixes up U4A and U4B into U4A and U7C. When they are on different ICs you can have all sorts of drift and other issues. I was looking for a way to lock that and basically was told that "it is not important". Maybe they have learned it by now but I had to get going quickly and moved on.

Thanks, the 1.1 version works (1.0 makes postscript which is IMO no good). The Windows 7 viewer can't handle SVG but Open Office imports it alright. At the usual resolution levels it doesn't seem to make much difference but at least it can do it.

Looks like I can't use SVG anyhow. Since Windows 7 does not understand SVG it can also not rotate the image. Neither can the ULP. Open Office only offers mirroring which doesn't make much sense but no rotation. Since larger schematics must go in rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise that's not going to work. Sometimes the old stuff is really best.

Speaking of mistakes, I remember one of the earlier Windows operating systems (NT, I think?) decided to "support" the HP DraftPro+ E-size HPGL2 plotter. It was sheet fed, not roll fed.

Guess what? The first command the driver would send is a "Page Eject".

Paper is now on the floor. No way to print.

Of course, this was far from the begging of the end for Microslop. In the scheme of things, it was hardly even noticeable. :)

I agree. If you use Excel correctly, it hardly ever blows up or complains. Wonderful software!!

Even though Microsoft has wrecked it from time-to-time.

Excel spreadsheet or visio.

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Install Gimp. It will allow export to various formats. So open it, then export it to a format you feel is more easily manipulated.

Then I might as well go directly with PNG :-)

It could be worse. An engineering manager was trying to debug a plotter, some sort of old inkjet machine. After the umpteenth time of running to the plotter from his office the think finally started to groan. Seconds later he stood there with ink all over his shirt. Problem was, that day he wore a white shirt.

Right. To be avoided.

Yeah, and the space shuttle program was a failure and gave us nothing, right, John?

You really are pathetic.

SVG should look as good, if both word and your surce app support it. EPG is another option.

Inkscape is probably a better choice for manipulating SVG

What did the manned spaceflight programs give us, besides dead astronauts?

i mean EPS.

The space shuttle wasn't particularly successful. They had a bad habit of blowing on launch or landing - too much bleeding edge technology in one place and too many potentially fatal single point failures.

Apollo was done on the basis of tried and tested technology only bigger.

About 400kg of moon rock compared to the puny Soviet unmanned 300g.

Cars that no longer bleed their vital fluids onto the drive.

HP65 pocket calculator (and a few desktopish ones before that).