Image out of focus in Publisher 2003

[Untle]

I am having a lot of problems with the new Publisher 2003.
(1) I have a rather large (12 meg) file that works fine in Pub 2000.
There is a bmp in it that is still sharp in the old version but extremely out
of focus in the new. I have tried to reload the image from the old file and
it is still out of focus. I have tried to save the old as a jpeg and import
into the new with the same results.
(2) The same file will not save as a 300 dpi jpeg. The screen is black.
It does fine as a 150 dpi.
(3) If you select all and copy & paste to Word, it never completes. The
program locks up and stops responding.

All of the above work in the Publisher 2000. Any ideas?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Check format, pictures, detailed display.

Might have some corruption going on. Do you have the picture stored somewhere other
than in the Publisher document? Copy/paste is not the best solution. Does the picture
look okay if you open it in a paint type editing program.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Should be, view, picture, detailed display, not format...

 

[Untle]

The image is fine in any graphics program and in Publisher except Publisher
2003.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have the Office 2003 service pack?
Does the picture print okay?

 

[Untle]

Mary,
I am replying on your email. I am sending pics of this problem.

Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher 2000 did not use compression with images, whereas 2003 does. Untie sent me
his images, after my brain started functioning, I realized the problem. The
publication printed okay...

 

[DavidF]

Mary,

Just curious. Why does the compression difference affect the way the image
is viewed? Why is it 'out of focus'?

DavidF

 

[Mary Sauer]

I'm not sure, he was making a poster 4 feet by 8 feet. I made two publications using
his dimensions and a simple bitmap circle. Pub 2003 file was 57 kb, the 2000 file was
267 kb. The publications were identical. I truly believe the distortion was more
because of the size of the publication. I could only zoom to 100% in Publisher 2000,
I could see the jaggies. In 2003, zooming to 800% the circle became blurred, but not
jagged.