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		<title>Sneaky Snippets (2): A Spec&#8217;s Half-Life Period?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a specification template of a company I worked for some years ago:
Purpose for states: Draft, Adopted, Deprecated
It kinda speaks for itself.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From a specification template of a company I worked for some years ago:</p>
<blockquote><p>Purpose for states: Draft, Adopted, Deprecated</p></blockquote>
<p>It kinda speaks for itself.</p>
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		<title>MS Project and Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question to all the project managers and other folks concerned with project planning out there: How do you embed gantt charts taken from MS Project into a MS Word document? Sounds easy? Well, there are a few constraints that must be satisfied:

It must be possible to rotate the chart &#8212; after embedding it or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A question to all the project managers and other folks concerned with project planning out there: How do you embed gantt charts taken from MS Project into a MS Word document? Sounds easy? Well, there are a few constraints that must be satisfied:</p>
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<li>It must be possible to rotate the chart &#8212; after embedding it or on the way.</li>
<li>The embedded chart must be resizable without quality loss, i.e. it must transformed into in some kind of vectorized form, or in very high resolution.</li>
<li>The Word file must be readable &#038; editable on machines where MS Project isn&#8217;t installed (in order to collaboratively edit a document).</li>
<li>The resulting Word document must not exceed a reasonable size, i.e. its okay for a document to gain a few MB by adding a one-page chart.</li>
<li>The process of converting/embedding must be reasonably simple so that it can be repeated iteratively, i.e. it shouldn&#8217;t take more than a fistful of steps.</li>
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<p>According to my personal experience, its an almost impossible job to do. After researching this problem and doing some tedious trial-and-error work for several hours, I found a way:</p>
<ul>
<li>print the chart as a high-quality PDF with embedded fonts using Adobe&#8217;s PDF driver</li>
<li>open the PDF in Acrobat</li>
<li>rotate</li>
<li>save as EPS</li>
<li>insert the EPS into the Word doc</li>
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<p>This works &#8212; if I perform these steps on my colleague&#8217;s machine. I tried this on my machine, but it won&#8217;t work. Exporting from Acrobat as Word doc works sometimes, but shows rather indeterministic behavior and sometimes leads to a mangled mess. Other approaches, such as going via WMF, EMF or directly embedding the MPP as an object, failed right away.<br />
I assume there is an easier way to do this which works on any machine (with the necessary software) &#8212; any suggestions?</p>
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