Hello,

This may well be the topic of an old post, but I have looked over 20+ pages of posts and didn't find anything relevant. I have created a letterhead in adobe illustrator and need to learn how to use it with Word. Have tried inserting as a header in word and, after converting the file to jpg, got the file to appear in my Word document but in reduced size and fuzzy text. Have tried using the pdf and eps versions of the file as a watermark and got the file to appear, but it was centered horizontally, cut off vertically and fuzzy.

Have spent a few hours on this and am getting nowhere. What am I missing?

Thanks for your help.

Not an answer, but a few observations:

• using jpg for an image with text in often brings in fuzziness – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact: try .png
• if you want to use a vector format, use .eps – but be aware that until you then save/print your Word file as .pdf, all you'll see is the (fuzzy!) .tif preview
• you'll get better results by resizing the image outside Word, so that it remains unaltered when you import it: how Word decides about rescaling images is a mystery to me

I'll let more knowledgeable contributors run with the placement and cropping questions