[erniesthings]

I did some work for a client about a year ago and did all the work in Illustrator and gave them all .pdf's for printing and even gave them th .ai's so they could do with as the wanted.

Well the didn't want to purchase Illustrator even though they could get it at the education discount.

Now they want Word .doc's for all of them. The only graphic is their logo (now). Can I get these to Word some how. Even taking them into Indesign and back to Word.

The Ding Dongs called me today and need to make some changes and also want to use the files as templates for other stuff. Which is fine by me. It's for a non-profit, so the less they have to spen the better for them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to look into this when I get home to see if it's even possable.

Thanks

Ernie

[Thorzdad]

Part of the job of being a professional designer is that of instruction. In this case, the instruction consists of teaching your client that Word is not a viable graphics file format. It's a container format for text and images.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like what they really want are basic document templates (letterhead, invoices, etc) that feature the logo. If so, you can easily generate tiffs of the logo and place them into a nice template design in Word and provide that to them.

If, on the other hand, they really, honestly want raw logo art (for any future purpose) in a Word doc...well...you can certainly provide them with a Word doc with a placed, hi-rez tiff file that they can copy/paste to their heart's content. You can also export your AI art as a Windows MetaFile (.wmf) This way, the art will retain its vector information and you can place that into a Word doc, too. I don't think they will be able to do any sort of vector-level editing on it, though, without resorting to buying Illustrator.

I sympathize with your situation. I've actually had to deal with a similar request before. It's hard to explain to people about proper file formats when all they know is Word.

[erniesthings]

Someone at the office must have done some explaining for me. The "younger" people must have talked some sence into the "older" bosses. I got an email a little while ago letting me know they are going to be purchasing Illustrator and I can give them some "basic training".

I didn't think there was an easy solution to their request.

Thanks

[Thorzdad]

Excellent news! Congrats.

[mitchell_pgh]

Yah, too many clients want InDesign/Quark magic from Word... and that just doesn't happen. I've painted myself into some corners using InDesign/Quark (and even Keynote for presentations).

[Thorzdad]

hehe...just wait until you get a client who wants a 4-page, solid-text, capabilities brochure done completely in Photoshop.
Did I mention it was solid text?

It takes your breath away sometimes...