Fidelity of Graphic/Photo Imbedded in Word Document?

[Ken Hall]

Someone who does some special printing service my wife uses wants the
photograph imbedded in a Word document. I don't know what kinds of
messing with the image Word does and am concerned it will degrade the
image quality.

For example, I believe it does not resample when resizing. I this
case I do nothing to the image after it is imported into Word.

I have recreated the Word doc file 3 times. The first doc file was
about 10 meg. The second was about 6 meg. The third 5 meg, and the
forth 4 meg. (I considering recreating it 10 more time to get the
file down to a size I can put on a floppy ;-)

In all cases the .tif image file was 6 meg, and it was imported into
the same 25 KB Word doc template.

This wild inconsistency magnifies my natural suspicion that Word is
messing with my image.

Does anybody know an explanation for these results that doesn't imply
the image is being jacked with?

Ken

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Someone who does some special printing service my wife uses wants the
photograph imbedded in a Word document. I don't know what kinds of
messing with the image Word does and am concerned it will degrade the
image quality.

For example, I believe it does not resample when resizing. I this
case I do nothing to the image after it is imported into Word.

I have recreated the Word doc file 3 times. The first doc file was
about 10 meg. The second was about 6 meg. The third 5 meg, and the
forth 4 meg. (I considering recreating it 10 more time to get the
file down to a size I can put on a floppy ;-)

In all cases the .tif image file was 6 meg, and it was imported into
the same 25 KB Word doc template.

This wild inconsistency magnifies my natural suspicion that Word is
messing with my image.

Does anybody know an explanation for these results that doesn't imply
the image is being jacked with?

Ken

Typically an image of that magnitude (at a size viewable in a letter/A4
document page) is far larger than needed to display it at the maximum
resolution of your screen (or home printer). If you want to use a
hi-fidelity image in a Word document, then you are best to link it rather
than embed it.

Why do they want the image embedded in a Word doc? In my experience,
professional printers hate receiving images in Word.

 

[Ken Hall]

Typically an image of that magnitude (at a size viewable in a letter/A4
document page) is far larger than needed to display it at the maximum
resolution of your screen (or home printer). If you want to use a
hi-fidelity image in a Word document, then you are best to link it rather
than embed it.

Why do they want the image embedded in a Word doc? In my experience,
professional printers hate receiving images in Word.

I agree. The person who wants the word file does some kind of special
printing on cloth. She does this at home and I suspect she's not very
computer sophisticated.

Ken