Re: Graphics are moving when printed and fuzzy.

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On 20/7/05 1:42 AM, in article
B98DDF62-9818-4B84-A88B-195AE4736983@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "skittles"
<skittles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ... The anchors I do use for continuity between text and
> photograph alignment vertically.

Yeah, the paragraphs to which the anchors are attached move, but the
measurements stay the same. That's what produces this problem.

> However, that doesn't seem to be the
> problem, since on screen the photograph is located where it should be. Only
> when I go to print (or print preview) the photograph has shifted randomly
> only a couple nudges to the right or left.

Print Preview is the only one you can trust. Word has three "Views" of a
document, each one using progressively more computer power to generate.
"Normal" view is a power-saving view good for fast editing on large
documents. It's totally dedicated to text creation, and also reveals a lot
of the control characters so you can see what you are doing. Most of us
long document pilots use that almost exclusively because it's so fast and
stable. But it doesn't even pretend to be accurate.

Print Layout view is the next one up. This uses the real font outlines to
generate the shape of the characters and hides non-printing characters. It
uses quite a bit more power so it's slower, and more likely to crash in
large complex documents. It's about 99 per cent WYSIWYG.

Print Preview, on the other hand, is 100 per cent accurate. It actually
"prints" the document to the screen, using the printer driver you are going
to be using. It is 100 per cent accurate, but its power demands are
outrageous. You "can" edit in Print Preview mode, by clicking the Magnify
button. Try not to: word is working so hard in this view that crashes are
likely.

So it's a trade-off: In Print Preview, you will see the picture exactly
where it is going to land on the page, but long documents move like molasses
in winter and your CPU fans will deafen you!

> As for my other problem, I only print at 300 dpi and my photos are the same.
> They aren't grainy or "pixalated" but look out of focus.

Yeah: JPEGs will do this. As I said: each of the compressed formats
involves a trade-off. In the case of JPEG, the trade off is between
resolution and colour. Colour wins. To get good resolution out of a JPEG,
you have to lift your quality rating above 80.

> I can't imagine
> I'm the only one running into this problem and with Word touting about able
> to use JPEGS, I would've only hoped it would be easy (oh, this may be where I
> have thing wrong!).

Well, you're not :-) This is not a "problem", it's a "feature" :-) JPEGs
enable you to choose between small and fuzzy, or big and crisp. The power
is in your hands. Try PNG: that's a non-lossy compression. It will be up
to twice the size, but you don't loose anything.

Hope this helps
>
> "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote:
>
>> There's a lot of detail to be considered in for this question, it's one of
>> the areas where "everything depends on everything else."
>>
>> Begin with this help topic: "Position an object in relation to page, text,
>> or other anchor"
>>
>> Also take a cruise here:
>> http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/drwgrphcs/DrawLayer.htm
>>
>> And here:
>> http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/DrawingGraphics.htm
>>
>> Safari has a bug that makes it fail to load those pages: keep hitting
>> "Refresh" until you get them, or use a different browser :-)
>>
>> Now: Floating pictures are positioned in relation to their "Anchor". You
>> need to know what that is, and where it is, for each picture. If the text
>> of a document changes (and if you change printers, it will) then Word will
>> try to keep the picture in the same position with respect to its anchor.
>>
>> Until that would result in the picture being placed off the page. In that
>> case, Word will give up and position the graphic as close as it can get it
>> to the anchor, or to the top of the page containing the anchor.
>>
>> I almost never use (let's face it, I NEVER!) use floating pictures because
>> of the difficulties of positioning them in long documents. Instead, I
>> ensure all of my graphics are "inline".
>>
>> 1) Create a blank paragraph
>> 2) Format it with your picture style (e.g. Create a style named "Graphics")
>> 3) Paste the picture into the paragraph.
>> 4) Set the picture's Layout property to "Inline with text"
>> 5) Define the paragraph properties of the style to correctly place each
>> picture in a uniform position.
>>
>> Voila! Every picture perfectly placed. Each picture can flow with the
>> text, and change page as required, and always be correctly positioned :-)
>>
>> Your "Fuzzy" printing can have a variety of causes. The first thing I would
>> suspect is that you are using JPEG pictures. JPEG sacrifices detail to
>> preserve colour when you set the quality rating less than 100 per cent.
>>
>> If you take a JPEG that looks OK on screen at 96 dpi and print it at the
>> same size on a colour printer that does 4800 dpi, the result will indeed
>> look extremely fuzzy.
>>
>> To get acceptable results when printing, you really need to use an original
>> with a resolution of 300 dpi or above at the size you want to print it. For
>> best results, choose the TIFF or PNG formats, or set your quality rating
>> above 80 in JPEG.
>>
>> This is a trade-off :-) Colour pictures at "Print" quality are seriously
>> large. Expect the document to take a long time to open, save, and print.
>>
>> If you insist on going into the photographs business, have a chat to Santa
>> about dropping a Dual-G5 with unlimited hard disk space, and a copy of
>> PhotoShop into your Christmas stocking :-)
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> On 19/7/05 4:15 AM, in article
>> 8E1E5967-CF6C-4CD5-B32E-4520EA0655A4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "skittles"
>> <skittles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Using Word X: (Mac)
>>> I've laid out my pictures in the margins of "mirror margins" layout.
>>> The pictures and captions are aligned as "in front of text." When in
>>> print preview or printing the pictures come out in different locations
>>> as on screen sometime into the text, partially off the page or into the
>>> captions. This seems to occur at random, as some of the pictures are
>>> actually printed in the locations I have placed them with captions in
>>> place. I've compensated in the past by nudging the photos back and
>>> forth until they printed okay, but with the amount of photos I have
>>> now, this is getting be a more than a day project for simply adjusting
>>> the locations of photos. Please shed some light as to how I should be
>>> placing my photos.
>>>
>>> Also they are coming out super fuzzy. JPEGS, should I be setting them
>>> at higher or lower resolutions and do I have to replace each one if I
>>> do, or is there a way to do that within Word? Thanks for any input!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
>> me unless I ask you to.
>>
>> John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
>> Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
>>
>>

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

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