I'm in the process of having a number of different marketing materials created for me by a graphic designer using a Mac. We figured the easiest way to use them in creating MS Office documents (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Publisher) would be to save them as a PDF, so that all of the properties would be preserved.
I'm finding out today that apparently, this doesn't work since MS Office doesn't appear to correctly handle PDF files. Is this correct?
For example, what I was trying to do today was trying to lay 8 or 10 business cards on a page so that I could send that for printing on heavy cardstock on an interim basis without wasting a lot of paper (8 or 10 per sheet instead of 1 per sheet). I tried starting in Publisher, then Word, and found that neither could directly handle importing a PDF. I tried inserting it somehow and it looked horrible.
My graphic designer is going to be sending me more graphic design elements, such as my logo, things that I can use to create letterhead, report covers, Powerpoint presentations, etc.
1) If this is correct and PDF doesn't work in MS Office, what format should I have my designer save these elements in so that I can EASILY bring them into MS Office documents while preserving the properties, and use them? I don’t want to waste his time, or mine for that matter.
2) How else would I get these design elements, created on a Mac, into Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint?
Thanks in advance for the help.
If the design work is being done in another Mac program, they may be able to be saved as a BMP, JPG, TIFF which should open in any other program that can handle those files on your computer, for instance Adobe Elements (which is Photoshop lite)
If you are looking for a PUB extension for publisher, that's not going to work well at all.
Do a Google search for Mac to Windows converter for some more ideas...
Hope this helps....
Acrobat is probably the program I use most often and I'm learning more every day.