pictures in Mac OSX Word 2004 or X

[Wolfgang Ihloff]

Hello NG,
a while back I wrote about my problems getting Word 5.1 pictures out
of the document and moving them to OSX for redoing a book.
Well I got quite a bit further, since I have the pictures out of those
docs via pdf, photoshop into high-res images in tiff or png or
whatever else Photoshop can do.

Now, there is still an issue before the book can go into print. When
printing the image and viewing in Preview oder Photoshop it comes out
really sharp and nice, but when I insert it into the Word document and
print within the document lines are not that sharp anymore and so the
result is not that great.

Any suggestions on what I should do to improve printing quality from
Word? Should I save to another format for Word?

Regards,

Wolfgang Ihloff

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hello NG,
a while back I wrote about my problems getting Word 5.1 pictures out
of the document and moving them to OSX for redoing a book.
Well I got quite a bit further, since I have the pictures out of those
docs via pdf, photoshop into high-res images in tiff or png or
whatever else Photoshop can do.

Now, there is still an issue before the book can go into print. When
printing the image and viewing in Preview oder Photoshop it comes out
really sharp and nice, but when I insert it into the Word document and
print within the document lines are not that sharp anymore and so the
result is not that great.

Any suggestions on what I should do to improve printing quality from
Word? Should I save to another format for Word?

If you have OS X 10.3 and your printer is not a Postscript printer, try
this.
In the Word print dialog, choose "any printer". Then in the "output
options" (hiding in the third selection box, normally headed "copies
and pages") check save as file, choose PostScript. Save the file

Then open the .ps file in Preview. It will convert to PDF, hopefully
avoiding the Word misfeature that insists on sending the low resolution
screen images to the printer. See if that prints OK.