Importing files - recomendations?

[garybug]

Can someone tell me what file types Illustrator 9 (MAC) accepts to work with, & what have you found to be the best ones to use that keep formatting etc, as I have a chart in Powerpoint (as a .ppt file) & want to send it for prining with other stuff in Illustrator 9? Someone said .wmf format, but they tend to mess up my formatting.. :-(

Thanks. Gary

 

[Pixelchik]

If I want quality output from a PPT file, I usually will do a 'Save As' in Powerpoint and save that slide as a TIF file, then open it is Photoshop and do any cleanup that is needed and change to CMYK (if needed) then import into Illustrator.

 

[garybug]

Thanks Chik,

Have found that by copying & pasting it into MS Visio, then exporting it from there as a .wmf, gets rid of all the extra slide background area that powerpoint shoves in if you export as a .wmf from there & keeps my formatting, so will use this I think.

 

[hparmar]

MS Power point directly saves to WMF format and the wmf files open neatly in AI(with proper structure preserved).