Images from PC show up as TriangleCircleSquare on Mac v.X

[drh]

I had an HTML document with 60 PNG images. I imported it into Word
2002 on Windows XP and saved it as a Word document. I then opened that
document on my Mac v.X and everyone of those images shows up as this
blue Triangle green Circle red Square icon thing, not as my images.
Certainly, PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a suitable image file
format, right? At least, that's why I choose it in the first place and
its space savings over TIFF...

Thanks,
-Darren

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I had an HTML document with 60 PNG images. I imported it into Word

2002 on Windows XP and saved it as a Word document. I then opened that
document on my Mac v.X and everyone of those images shows up as this
blue Triangle green Circle red Square icon thing, not as my images.
Certainly, PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a suitable image file
format, right? At least, that's why I choose it in the first place and
its space savings over TIFF...

Randomly guessing:

Is your Office X updated to 10.1.6?

First, go into Preferences, View tab--there are a couple of checkboxes
relating to the display of images--do show drawings, don't show image
placeholders.

I must say,

blue Triangle green Circle red Square icon thing,

Is a new one, the usual difficulty is just a Red X inside a square. You
might want to see if any of the advice on the Red X problem applies/helps.
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Add-Ins.htm

Actually, I suspect the blue Triangle green Circle red Square icon thing is
the icon for a clipping or a Mac PICT file. Not sure what to do with that
info, though. If you doubleclick the icon, what happens?

Also, where is the HTML document kept? I thought that HTML held pictures in
a different place, so I'm not sure importing it would bring the pictures
over, it may only bring links, which worked on the computer where the
original doc was, but not on a different computer. How did you import it
into Word? And how was it created?

(i.e., when you save a doc with images as HTML from Word, it separates out
the pictures and puts them in a folder. I don't know whether that process
needs to be reversed to go the other way, but I don't know much about HTML)

 

[CyberTaz]

PNG is a relatively new graphics file format primarily intended for Web
use. I do not know if Word X handles that format or not. You might try
looking in Insert>Picture>From file at the file types indicated in the
list to see if PNG is included.

You might also want to check Word>Preferences>View to see that no check
is in the box for Image Placeholders.

HTH |:>)