I found this out quite by accident, but it may help. It's certainly a
different solution than the ones posed by the others so far.
When I made the migration from OS 9 to OS X, I noticed that many of
the "new" Word documents I was making had low-resolution image output.
The was especially noticable when I asked OS X to make a PDF of the
file. Then, quite by accident, I created a file that *didn't* have
that problem, so I set about finding what was different about this one
file.
What I discovered was that a "new" document created in OS X by (1)
opening an old OS 9 Word document, and (2) gutting its contents to
serve as a template for the new document produced only low-res output
into PDF. While documents created "fresh" in Word on OS X print their
images at the desired resolution.
So you can do this test...
Create a brand-new document, and Insert Picture, just as you normally
would, with the same picture you had trouble with before. (Dragging
and dropping picture files from the finder, or cut-and-paste, may
appear to work, but you could face unadvertized, vexing issues of
cross platform compatability, as I've discovered. Don't do it. Use
Insert > Picture From File, from the menus.) How does it print
compared to your earlier attempt.
Please let the group know what you find.
M. Katz
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