Images print blurry

[Considine & Griffiths]

Hi
Is there a way to prevent jpegs/ eps / tiffs / picts / pngs / etc, etc (have
tried all available formats) from printing blurry (looks like about 72dpi)
when sent to a postscript printer or pdf file from Word v.10?

Previous versions, ie word 98 and Mac OS 9, had no problem with this.
I have also opened on my PC the VERY SAME FILE - created on my Mac - and the
images all print at full resolution.
Could it be that Microsoft wants me to give up and just use a PC for
everything? Very mysterious...

Cal

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Cal:

There's no sure way. Make sure you have applied the latest service release
to Word X and OS X.

And try using pictures that are linked, rather than embedded in the
document.

The problem is that to display the picture in the document, OS X generates
an "image preview" at screen resolution. The bug is that when the job is
sent to the printer, the printer driver is getting hold of the wrong part of
the picture: the preview, not the embedded high-res data.

Sorry to be not much help

Hi
Is there a way to prevent jpegs/ eps / tiffs / picts / pngs / etc, etc (have
tried all available formats) from printing blurry (looks like about 72dpi)
when sent to a postscript printer or pdf file from Word v.10?

Previous versions, ie word 98 and Mac OS 9, had no problem with this.
I have also opened on my PC the VERY SAME FILE - created on my Mac - and the
images all print at full resolution.
Could it be that Microsoft wants me to give up and just use a PC for
everything? Very mysterious...

Cal

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