Drawings created using Mayura Draw can be included in documents created using LaTeX, Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, and other word processors. To import your drawing into a word processor, export your drawing in EPS format. Use the EPS inclusion capability of your word processor to include the drawing in a document.
In Microsoft Word, from the Insert menu choose Picture. Then change Files of type to Encapsulated PostScript (*.eps). Select the file and click OK.
Note: If Word doesn't show Encapsulated PostScript in Files of type list box, you did not click the Encapsulated PostScript option when you installed Word. Reinstall Word to fix the problem.
The EPS Options dialog will let you include a preview in the EPS file. If you are using a WYSIWYG word processor such as Microsoft Word check the Include screen preview option.
To ensure that text will be printed using the right font, click the Include fonts option.
EPS files will only print at the intended quality
if you have a PostScript printer. If your printer doesn't support
PostScript, export to WMF format instead of EPS.
Technical details for advanced users:
EPS is the format preferred by high-end desktop publishing systems.
Unlike other vector formats such as WMF and CGM, EPS uses PostScript,
a powerful graphics language used by high-end typesetting machines
costing tens of thousands of dollars, such as Linotype, as well
as cheaper laser printers costing around $400, such as Lexmark
E322 and HP LaserJet 1200se.
About PostScript and the EPS file format
EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript. An Encapsulated PostScript file contains PostScript code designed to be included as a part of another page, rather than being sent to a PostScript printer directly. All EPS files contain PostScript code. However, PostScript code is in general only understood by printers equipped with a PostScript interpreter. Word processors do not understand PostScript code, and therefore cannot directly display PostScript files on the screen. To solve this problem, EPS files may contain a preview bitmap in addition to the PostScript code. When you insert an EPS file into a word processor, your word processor ignores the PostScript code that it cannot understand, and instead depends on the preview bitmap to display the drawing on the screen. But when the word processor prints the document, it sends the PostScript code to the printer instead of the bitmap. This assumes your printer can understand PostScript. If it cannot, the word processor sends the preview bitmap to the printer, resulting in poor quality.
Not all EPS files contain preview bitmaps. When you insert an EPS file which does not contain a preview bitmap into a word processor, the word processor will not be able to display the drawing on the screen. Your word processor may instead display some details about the EPS file such as its name and the date it was created. Even though the EPS file does not contain a preview bitmap, it still contains all the PostScript code necessary to print the picture. So when you print the document, the word processor sends the PostScript code to the printer and the drawing will appear in the output. Again, this assumes that your printer is a PostScript printer. If it is not, the word processor will not be able to print the graphic.
Do not confuse AI (Adobe Illustrator) format with EPS format. AI format is a simplified subset of EPS format. Since AI format is simpler many drawing programs can open AI files. However EPS files can be arbitrarily complex, so most programs can't open EPS files unless, of course, your particular EPS file also happens to be an AI file. All AI files are EPS files* but not all EPS files are AI files.
* Note however, that AI format files often omit the PostScript header portion. If the header portion is missing in your AI file then it is not, strictly speaking, an EPS file. Use AI format only for interchanging a drawing among various drawing programs. When it is time to print, use EPS format because without a header, your AI file won't print.