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Subject:RE: Suggestions for new tool option From:"David B. Stewart" <dbstewart -at- dswrite -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:44:47 -0500
Sorry, I'm not a guru, but I stumbled over an interesting MS Knowledge Base
article a few weeks ago. It addresses an issue in Word 2000 for saving
files to an earlier version type, but have to wonder about earlier versions,
too. See MSKB article #Q224663 at the http://www.microsoft.com/support/
website.
When a back level version is saved, MS Word 2000 makes an additional graphic
copy in WMF format whenever a PNG, EMF, GIF, or JPEG file is encountered.
Maybe those graphic types were converted outright in earlier versions.
Regards,
Dave
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-71190 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Brierley,
Sean
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:22 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Suggestions for new tool option
Hmmmmm:
Could some guru clear up my misunderstanding about this, but if a graphic is
embedded into a Word document, then that graphic no longer is the format it
once was. For example, if you copy the GIF into the graphic, is it not now a
Word object, rather than a GIF?
BTW, there should be no probles using GIFs. PNG might be better because it
compresses better and because it avoids that largely irrelevant Compuserve
lawsuit issue. PNG and GIF are limited to 8-bit, or 256 colors, versus TIFFs
CMYK color support, for example.
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