How do I choose a suitable file format for inserted images?

[John Liungman]

In many of my documents, I can choose the file format of the source file when
I insert images. For example, the company logotype is available in eps, tiff,
jpg, etc.

Which is recommended? If I choose a high-resolution tiff, will this make my
document unnecessarily large? Does Word convert everything to Metafile
format? Will selecting INSERT or LINK make a difference to the quality of the
end-product?

NB: I mostly export to PDF, using the functionality added by Adobe Acrobat,
and I want professional print quality.

Regards

John Liungman
Sweden

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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In many of my documents, I can choose the file format of the source file when
I insert images. For example, the company logotype is available in eps, tiff,
jpg, etc.

Which is recommended? If I choose a high-resolution tiff, will this make my
document unnecessarily large? Does Word convert everything to Metafile
format? Will selecting INSERT or LINK make a difference to the quality of the
end-product?

NB: I mostly export to PDF, using the functionality added by Adobe Acrobat,
and I want professional print quality.

In a general sort of way, the best thing to do is just try all the variations
until you find the one that works best for your specific configuration. Some
guidelines are available in this article.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320314&FR=1

Insert from File shouldn't be any different, no matter whether you choose to
link or not. Using a LINK field (Insert/Object/From file) has been known to make
a difference in quality in some cases. This will embed the graphic as an
OLE-Object, however, which will "bloat" the document size; no idea how coverting
to PDF will handle it.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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