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Clip art in Office 2003 fuzzy when enlarged. What's wrong?



 
 
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Old September 11th, 2008, 02:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc
JaneinPA
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Default Clip art in Office 2003 fuzzy when enlarged. What's wrong?

We just switched from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Now I find when adding
clip art to documents that whenever I enlarge a picture, it becomes fuzzy and
out of focus. This never happened before in our previous version.

Also, if I find the clipart online and use that, I can enlarge to my heart's
content, so there is something wrong with my own computer

Is there some setting in Office that I need to fix?
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Old September 11th, 2008, 02:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc
Mary Sauer[_3_]
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Default Clip art in Office 2003 fuzzy when enlarged. What's wrong?

It depends on what you mean by clipart. Bitmaps (.jpg, .png, .gif etc.) will
lose resolution when you try to enlarge them. Vectors such as .wmf will not lose
resolution.

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"JaneinPA" wrote in message
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We just switched from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Now I find when adding
clip art to documents that whenever I enlarge a picture, it becomes fuzzy and
out of focus. This never happened before in our previous version.

Also, if I find the clipart online and use that, I can enlarge to my heart's
content, so there is something wrong with my own computer

Is there some setting in Office that I need to fix?



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Old September 11th, 2008, 04:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc
JaneinPA
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Default Clip art in Office 2003 fuzzy when enlarged. What's wrong?

Yes, I realize that. I am talking about the clipart that is included with
Office. They are bitmaps, but I've never had a problem enlarging them in the
past. Now I can only use them as tiny thumbnail size graphics.

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

It depends on what you mean by clipart. Bitmaps (.jpg, .png, .gif etc.) will
lose resolution when you try to enlarge them. Vectors such as .wmf will not lose
resolution.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"JaneinPA" wrote in message
...
We just switched from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Now I find when adding
clip art to documents that whenever I enlarge a picture, it becomes fuzzy and
out of focus. This never happened before in our previous version.

Also, if I find the clipart online and use that, I can enlarge to my heart's
content, so there is something wrong with my own computer

Is there some setting in Office that I need to fix?




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Old September 11th, 2008, 11:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc
Mary Sauer[_3_]
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Default Clip art in Office 2003 fuzzy when enlarged. What's wrong?

Some of the newer images on the Office web site are from providers. Notice when
you do a preview that a number of these pictures do not say resizable.



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"JaneinPA" wrote in message
...
Yes, I realize that. I am talking about the clipart that is included with
Office. They are bitmaps, but I've never had a problem enlarging them in the
past. Now I can only use them as tiny thumbnail size graphics.

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

It depends on what you mean by clipart. Bitmaps (.jpg, .png, .gif etc.) will
lose resolution when you try to enlarge them. Vectors such as .wmf will not
lose
resolution.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"JaneinPA" wrote in message
...
We just switched from Office 2000 to Office 2003. Now I find when adding
clip art to documents that whenever I enlarge a picture, it becomes fuzzy
and
out of focus. This never happened before in our previous version.

Also, if I find the clipart online and use that, I can enlarge to my
heart's
content, so there is something wrong with my own computer

Is there some setting in Office that I need to fix?






 




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