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And, depending on the nature of the image files, there are many better
alternatives than Paint that are free and so pose no cost to the
employer. The Gimp is excellent for photos; IrfanView is respectable and
easy to use for simple photo tasks. For illustration work, Inkscape is
an up-and-coming program that holds a lot of promise, too.
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From: techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Lauren
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:57 PM
To: 'Edgar D' Souza'; 'Julia Norquist'
Cc: 'techwr-l'
Subject: RE: My cropped graphics won't compress
Julia,
Ed's questions seem to clear up my confusion about your question if you
are doing all of your formatting in Word. Are you using Word's built in
"crop"
features to resize the image? That doesn't work very well. Put the
image, preferably the original image but copying the inline graphic will
work, into a graphics program, preferably a good one, but Paint will
work, and resize it there.
I've had jobs where I wasn't permitted to use a graphics program because
the employer didn't have a license, so I had to use Paint. If you have
to use Paint, then open or paste the image into Paint, select what you
want and paste it as a new image. Then copy that and paste it back into
Word.
Dang, I hate tightwads. Why can't they just buy a graphics program?
They do use graphics. All of those charts and screenshots are graphics.
Cheapskates.
Lauren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf
> Of Edgar D' Souza
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:38 PM
> To: Julia Norquist
> Cc: techwr-l
> Subject: Re: My cropped graphics won't compress
>
> On 6/1/07, Julia Norquist <techiejules -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know why cropped graphics in Word might return to their
> > original size? I've been compressing each graphic and
> deleting the cropped
> > area (the parts I cut off), and that usually works.
> However, sometimes,
> > after I compress a graphic, it returns to its uncropped
> size. Why does this
> > happen? This happens to the same graphics I've used in
> several places, and I
> > don't know why.
> >
>
> That's not too clear, unfortunately. Could you please explain:
> a) How are you "compressing" the graphics?
> b) "Cropping" itself means deleting parts of an image that are outside
> a selected area; "deleting the cropped area" is not only redundant,
> it's confusing :-)
> c) You're mixing "compression" with "cropping" somehow, when you say
> "sometimes, after I compress a graphic, it returns to its uncropped
> size."
>
> I assume you're using an image editor to crop the image. You then save
> the image to a file on disk, and link the image file into Word.
> To the best of
> my knowledge, the only "compression" available depends on the image
> format in which you save your image - JPEG or PNG, for example. Also
> to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to use *Word* to compress
> graphics.
>
> I suspect you mean "resizing" and not "compressing" - is that a good
> guess?
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
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