hi box4it,

Whether an eps file displays anything other than an empty box in the document depends on how the eps was created. Because the eps is basically a bunch of embedded postscript code, Word requires it to include a low-res TIFF rendition of the content for display purposes (the high-res postscript is what gets printed).

For an A4/letter page, you'll never need more than about 22.5MB of raw RGB image data (3300*2200 pixels). And that's for a photo-quality full-colour print (which requires photo-quality paper). Such a file in high-res jpg format would typically be only 3-3.5MB. Even a compressed TIFF (lossless compression) would probably be no more than 8MB. For a 200dpi document resolution, the required raw file's dimensions would only be around 2400*1600 pixels, which would give file stats about 2/3 of the above.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]