Urgent: emailing images in a pdf file

[gracie]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When I create a pdf file with photos, I can see them, but when the file is emailed, the photos are not visible.

Please let me know if this is a setting I can adjust because photos *used* to show up.

Need this info today! Many thanks

 

[Rob Schneider]

Frankly, this doesn't make sense. If I understand you correctly and
infer accordingly, from Word you have a document from which you create a
PDF and when you look at the result (say via Preview) you see the
photos. Then you email the file. Emailing has nothing to do with Word
by the way. on the receiving side they report that the photos, when they
look at in say Preview or perhaps Adobe Acrobat that the photos are gone?

Clearly, if this is true, then your email program or their email program
has edited the PDF ... that is unlikely. Alternatively, the photos were
never there, or they don't know how to use Adobe Acrobat or Preview?

What does this have to do with Word?

Or does it? have you by chance created a PDF file that indeed does not
have photos in it? In Word, the printing options, by chance have you
printed without graphics?


--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[gracie]

Hey, Rob, thanks for thinking this through with me.

I drop photos into a Word doc. (And I can see them.) I click 'print' then 'save as pdf file.'

After it formats the doc into a pdf file and saves to my desktop, I open the pdf file and the text is there but the pictures are not.

 

[John McGhie]

"How" are you dropping photos into Word?

I am wondering if the photos are ending up off the page, which is why you
can't see them in the PDF.

Check that the wrapping for each picture is set to "Inline with text".

Cheers

Hey, Rob, thanks for thinking this through with me.

I drop photos into a Word doc. (And I can see them.) I click 'print' then
'save as pdf file.'

After it formats the doc into a pdf file and saves to my desktop, I open the
pdf file and the text is there but the pictures are not.

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[gracie]

Yes, that's what I do. Drag the photo, then click on wrapping and click 'inline with text' or 'tight.'

Let me know if there's anything else I can try. I really appreciate your help.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Gracie:

Yeah, there are a few things we can try. Unfortunately, this is a "Medusa
problem" ‹ you have to wrestle it to the ground, one head at a time.

If your pix are set to "Inline with text" so they can't wander off the page,
the next thing to check is Word>Preferences>Print>Include with
Document>Drawing Objects. That must be turned on.

Make sure that you are not placing the images in a text box which has a
white fill. There is a bug in OS X printing that reverses the "layers" so
you can get the white fill on top, obscuring the picture beneath it.

And what type of image files are these? Word has problems with colour
depths above 24-bit (RGB colour standard).

Hope this helps

Yes, that's what I do. Drag the photo, then click on wrapping and click
'inline with text' or 'tight.'

Let me know if there's anything else I can try. I really appreciate your
help.

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The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]

 

[gracie]

John, you're a genius.

It was the unchecked box under preferences (include with document, drawing objects.)

It is working now and I can't thank you enough.

All the best,

gracie