: Adobe Illustrator to Microsoft Office I hope you can help? if an image is used in illustrator that will be used for office products what is the best format?

@Fox8063795

Adobe Illustrator has a "Save for Microsoft Office" setting and it has worked well for me. It exports as a transparent PNG at 150 resolution. Screenshot is from version CS6.

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@Murray976

RGB PNG24 is generally the best option for any Microsoft Office application.

You can try vector formats, but they tend to get destroyed if the Office document, whatever it is, is opened on any other system. And often they break on the same system that created the Office file.

Office is dumb when it comes to commercial print standards.. it loves RGB... and PNG offers transparency over jpg... so RGB PNG is often best. Barring that.. a jpg.

In fact, if you use the Export for Microsoft Office command in Illustrator.. that's what is created, a PNG.

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@Jessie844

I am a little outdated here but I'm not currently using the latest version of office.

But as I recall, Office was pretty bad working with vector files. The EMF and WMF was very bad maintaining the shape. So if you do not need an editable object, probably the best option is exporting as a transparent PNG with a decent size (px) or at 100% size at let us say 150 PPI, if you are going to use the image as a "floating" shape.

Also if the shape has gradients, you need to flatten them in a bitmap.

You can try EPS for simple shapes.

At the end you need to try and error. Depending on the specifics of the image you could loose nodes or some characteristics of the image or not. It is not going to take more than 5 minutes do some tests on your specific image.

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