Uncompress graphics by reinserting doesn't work

[M Skabialka]

I had a document with about 30 graphics inserted into it from screen shots
originally saved as .bmp files. It was about 15 MB so I used the compress
pictures option to compress all of the pictures. That reduced it to about
1/2 MB which was great until I realized that they were trying to use the
screen shots copied from Word in some PowerPoint presentations.

When they copied them they were really low quality. So I took the document,
and one by one deleted the graphics, and then reinserted them. However, the
document is still very small, so that means the graphics are still
compressed. What do I need to do to put the pictures in non-compressed?
This is a 40 pages users guide for an application I wrote, and they want to
give presentations of how it works by lifting shots from the manual. They
don't want me to send the .bmps by themselves.

Thanks,
Mich

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mich,

You mentioned that the original graphics were stored
as bitmaps and that you then inserterd new graphics?

What file type are the new graphics and how were they
inserted? Word can do a pretty good job of compressing
graphics that come in via Insert=>Picture from file and
it's possible that in that dialog that they were linked
rather than embedded as well, which would further reduce
the file size stored in the Word document.


If you use File=>Web Page Preview and then in the address
bar of Internet explorer go up one directory "\" level
and look in the files there is there a graphic for each
one in your document? Is there more than one graphic
(often from resizing the graphics after they're inserted
into a Word document).

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I had a document with about 30 graphics inserted into it from screen shots
originally saved as .bmp files. It was about 15 MB so I used the compress
pictures option to compress all of the pictures. That reduced it to about
1/2 MB which was great until I realized that they were trying to use the
screen shots copied from Word in some PowerPoint presentations.

When they copied them they were really low quality. So I took the document,
and one by one deleted the graphics, and then reinserted them. However, the
document is still very small, so that means the graphics are still
compressed. What do I need to do to put the pictures in non-compressed?
This is a 40 pages users guide for an application I wrote, and they want to
give presentations of how it works by lifting shots from the manual. They
don't want me to send the .bmps by themselves.

Thanks,
Mich >>