[softwarelist] Re: OPW - disappearing pictures

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:19:23 -0000, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <49293244.3070704@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> writes
I have an OPW document created at least a year ago, which contains several B&W pictures. I'm guessing that the pictures were copied and pasted from an original MSWORD document. The pictures are visible in the OPW document, but when I print the file to PDF using Acrobat Distiller, the pictures are not visible in the PDF.
Is this as expected? Is there away of making them visible in the PDF, or should I be thinking of redrawing the pictures, saving them in DRAW or TIFF format, then reimporting them into OPW?
My guess is this. Your pictures are Windows meta files or enhanced meta files, and you have Ovation Pro set up to do "direct PostScript". OP can't generate PostScript for meta files.
The obvious fix is to turn off direct PostScript, that works as long as you don't have a good reason for wanting direct PostScript turned on.
If you do need direct PS, then you'll have to convert the meta files to some other format.
Yes, I suspect they are WMFs. In this particular case, I could switch off direct PostScript ... but I tend to have it switched on by default because, if it's not switched on, then in certain documents that contain TIFF pictures, I find that a thin black line sometimes appears along the edge of the picture in the resulting PDF. I don't know why this happens, but having direct PS on seems to prevent it happening. 
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C.B.
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