URGENT--photos ok as sent but fuzzy in ms word doc

[maryszoo2002]

I only barely know what I'm doing. I am a volunteer, the most
computer-friendly in our group and I have to produce an important booklet by
tomorrow. Serious $$$ is involved for a not-for-profit.

It is in msword, I'm running xp. Some of the artwork sent to me looks fine
until I insert it into my doc. Then, it becomes fuzzy. One piece, from
Powerpoint loses some of it's internal borders. The one saved in coreldraw
loses it's internal borders. The ones in corelpaint are fuzzy. I tried
re-downloading reaconverter but I guess since I used it once last year, I
can't do that any more.

I think I am way out of my league. I'm really hoping someone "out there"
can help me quick.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you printed an image? Does it print okay?
If all your images are blurry it very well could be your video/graphics driver
needs upgrading.

 

[maryszoo2002]

Hi Mary

One pic was initially sent as ai & eps. I couldn't open so they re-sent as
attachments and I don't know what the format is. They both show the ms
windows logo though. When I opened them they looked ok and I was assuming
that they were sized correctly (the ad guy was told the size). I have a
feeling he made it a little too large. I saved it in CorelDraw. When I
enlarge it to 350% it looks good BUT the left and bottom edges won't print
AND I can't copy this thing into my word doc. If I print it any smaller it's
a mess--the photos which are circular are step-laddered all around the edges
and the text is a mess--looks like bold and squashed together. If I make it
big enough I think it will

Second pic was first sent as Powerpoint. I couldn't print it so it was
re-sent as a jpeg. It's very fuzzy everywhere. It looks "digitized". I
put it in Corel, thinking why not? It looked and printed clear as a bell
EXCEPT we lost 2 important internal borders.

What else should I say?

Mary

 

[Mary Sauer]

In CorelDraw, import, select PS, PRN, EPS Interpreted, browse to the file. If
the file has a .wmf header it will not become fuzzy. If the header is .tif, then
the files will be better opened in Corel Photo-Paint or any other photo editing
program you have.
I don't know what to tell you about these pictures. If Corel prints clear
images, can you not manually insert the internal borders and save as a format
you can use in Word?