Re: inserting Adobe Illustrator graphics, more experience
- From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:34:47 +1100
Hi Henry:
Useful information :-)
On 25/3/06 4:42 PM, in article C04A183D.178B2%henryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"henryn" <henryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
o Word sizes "wide" artwork reasonably, apparently for the page width --and
not the current margin setting. (More experimentation...) I wish there was
a bit more user control for special situations.
If you insert the image "Inline with text" it should size to the "available
text margin", which will be either the page margin, the column margin, or a
table or textbox size, depending on where you put it.
If you insert the image with "Text Wrapping", the size would normally be the
print image size, because you are in the graphics layer, outside the
document margins.
This also strongly implies that the image one sees in the Word file is
derived from scalable PostScript that's in the PDF, and not a bitmap preview
image also included in the Insert'ed file as many people believe. The
result is clearly a bitmap, as a quick scaling experiment with the picture
editing tools clearly demonstrates.
Hmmm... It might be worth heaving that file over to the PC and checking it
before you go much further. If the preview is being constructed using
QuickTime, it will be unreadable on PCs {sob!}.
My understanding of what is "supposed" to happen is that when Word gets hold
of the file, it uses an "Import filter" to bring it in. This import filter
falls back in sequence through a list of the graphics formats it recognises
until it finds one that can handle the content.
It then constructs a "Local Image" of the graphic, which it uses for display
in the document. If the only header it finds in the file is a one-bit TIFF,
that's what it will use. If it finds a readable PDF in there, I guess it
uses that instead.
My understanding is that whatever it finds, it converts internally to PNG
for local display. PNG is of course a bitmap.
Cheers
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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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