Hi, I am having trouble designing tables for an article of my university
magazine publication.. I know freehand doesnt support tables so I converted my
MSWORD file into PDF and then used the snapshot tool to get an image of those
tables in freehand--but it isnt coming right. The image gets massively
distorted.. I have used different website (vectormagic.com) to create vector
images of the tables, but still no success. I surely cannot draw 140 rows and 6
columns (thats easy) and then put numerical data in those spaces. it will take
me ages.. is there anyone to ease my pain? plz answer farhannoor@gmail.com

> Hi, I am having trouble designing tables for an article of my university
> magazine publication.. I know freehand doesnt support tables so I
> converted my
> MSWORD file into PDF and then used the snapshot tool to get an image of
> those
> tables in freehand--but it isnt coming right. The image gets massively
> distorted.. I have used different website (vectormagic.com) to create
> vector
> images of the tables, but still no success. I surely cannot draw 140
> rows and 6
> columns (thats easy) and then put numerical data in those spaces. it
> will take
> me ages.. is there anyone to ease my pain? plz answer
> farhannoor@gmail.com


Is the magazine made with FreeHand too? Layout programs like InDesign can
import pdf files as images of course InDesign also imports Word tables.

Best way I can think of is to make the table layout in Word and then
export pdf files. Insead of making images pdf files can be saved as eps
and imported to FreeHand as any other eps image. This requires Acrobat
Pro, though. FreeHand can import some pdf formats but most often not.

If the tabels have black text ensure that eps file do not include rgb
colors (Pdf export settings, Press Quality for example). Wrong color space
will mess up the printing for sure because rgb black is usually converted
into cmyk color like C=94 M=82 Y=81 K=89.

Jukka

Salam! Hey thanks for the reply. I downloaded the Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro trial
version and the jpeg it exported was just brilliant. i even converted the pdf
to eps file like you told. Youre a life saver--Alhamdolillah...cheers-Farhan