Hi Britt:
I would be inclined to use PDF or EPS format out of Illustrator, not PNG.
Microsoft Word is going to re-express any raster image in its own internal
format (which is 24-bit PNG) and save that in the document along with the
original, so that will be huge.
You should also make sure that Tracked Changes is OFF when you do this,
otherwise every time you move the picture, you will store another copy in
the file.
And .docx will be about a quarter of the size of .doc for this kind of
thing.
Hope this helps
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
How do I put a different background image (that I originally created in
Illustrator and exported as a MicroSoft png file) on different Word pages. For
example: Page 1 has a graphic A, page 2 has graphic B, page 3 has graphic C,
etc. These are full size background images. I imported the images directly in
and the file size was huge. Is there another way to do this? My png files are
really small.
thanks - Britt
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