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How fine is an embedded/inserted picture?
Hello,
This question applies to MS Word 2000 running on Windows 98SE. How fine (i.e. how many pixels per inch) can an embedded/inserted picture be? Does that change if the picture gets resized? I have inserted high-res pictures in documents, which then turn out to print at low-res. Is there a fix for this? Would it help to save in a different format, other than *.DOC ? (Of course, I could use MS Publisher 2000 -- but that gets unwieldy with documents more than one page long.) Thank you very much! Ted Shoemaker |
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How fine is an embedded/inserted picture?
Hi Ted,
Regardless of the resolution of the original picture, it can't be printed at higher resolution than your printer supports. So inserting a high-res picture and scaling it down won't improve things. However, the same image scaled up can degrade, simply because there isn't enough resolution to support the larger scale. It would also be worthwhile checking your printer's 'graphics' settings, as they may be limiting what you can achieve. Regards "Ted Shoemaker" wrote in message m... Hello, This question applies to MS Word 2000 running on Windows 98SE. How fine (i.e. how many pixels per inch) can an embedded/inserted picture be? Does that change if the picture gets resized? I have inserted high-res pictures in documents, which then turn out to print at low-res. Is there a fix for this? Would it help to save in a different format, other than *.DOC ? (Of course, I could use MS Publisher 2000 -- but that gets unwieldy with documents more than one page long.) Thank you very much! Ted Shoemaker --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 16/03/2004 |
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How fine is an embedded/inserted picture?
"macropod" (del NO.SPAM) wrote in message ...
Regardless of the resolution of the original picture, it can't be printed at higher resolution than your printer supports. Of course. However, I think that the printer is capable of printing a finer picture from a plain picture file than it does from a *.doc file. (I haven't taken a magnifying glass and counted dots; that's just my impression.) Also, sometimes the *.doc file containing the picture is smaller than the picture itself! (No, this is not referring to a linked picture. It's embedded in the *.doc file.) Thank you! Ted Shoemaker |
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How fine is an embedded/inserted picture?
Hi Ted,
Office 2000+ can stores bitmaps in a compressed form, so some with little or no compression (eg bmp) can end up giving a smaller file size than the original but others that are already highly compressed (eg jpg) probably won't much - or at all. Cheers "Ted Shoemaker" wrote in message om... "macropod" (del NO.SPAM) wrote in message ... Regardless of the resolution of the original picture, it can't be printed at higher resolution than your printer supports. Of course. However, I think that the printer is capable of printing a finer picture from a plain picture file than it does from a *.doc file. (I haven't taken a magnifying glass and counted dots; that's just my impression.) Also, sometimes the *.doc file containing the picture is smaller than the picture itself! (No, this is not referring to a linked picture. It's embedded in the *.doc file.) Thank you! Ted Shoemaker --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.627 / Virus Database: 402 - Release Date: 16/03/2004 |
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