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[Magnus]

Hi,

Most of our users is working with pictures less than once a week, so my
recommendation has been to use Publisher to do simple work with them.

One of my users had a picture saved in 72 dpi and size 600x175. Looking in
the file properties, and with other softwares, they all confirm this. The
user opens a new document in Publisher, chooses Insert - Picture - From
File, and choose that file, and its added into the document. As soon as you
add an object, and save them together as a picture, the resolution changes
to 96 dpi and 72 is no longer available. I suppose Publisher dosen't support
72 dpi then, or what?!?!?

Is 72 dpi not recommended any longer? My friend who is a web designer says,
he always work with 72 dpi in his picture that is only made for the web.

Another question about Office (but I think maybe only Microsoft could
answer). Why is it not possible to save as picture in Word or Excel? Why is
the save as picture behavior different in Powerpoint?

Any comments?
/Magnus

 

[DavidF]

Magnus,

I am not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish. What is the final
product or goal for the Publisher file with the images in them? Why are you
saving the whole page as a picture? Perhaps there is a better work flow we
can suggest, if you better explain what you are trying to do.

Publisher 2003 and 2007 can Save As the whole page as an image. You are
given three choices. 96 for webpages, 150 for print, and 300 for commercial.
Publisher web pages use absolute positioning in the html code, and thus the
output is designed to look the best on a monitor, which up until recently
was usually set to 96 dpi, thereby the default of 96 instead of 72 dpi.

Once again, describe what you are trying to do in more detail, and perhaps
the problem your are having, and we can perhaps offer a better explanation.

As per the your questions about the other Office programs, just because they
are all in the Office family does not mean they will all work the same.
PowerPoint output is design for the screen. Word output is designed for
print. Publisher is primarily a Desktop Publishing program that also has web
building capability. They are all for different purposes, and different
mediums, and thus will work a bit differently.

DavidF