Re: Pictures in Word document

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Thanks Elliot,

The gravity of the situation starts to think in. So far I have gotten a lot
to chew on. But I rather know where to go than to keep stumbling within
Word and expecting something what this tool can not deliver.

Whereas my project looked simple and straightforward, word-processing and
every page or so a picture or two that come in various sizes. Up to now I
was under the impression that I did not need to know much about publishing
assuming Word was almighty. My strategy of the day is to take all pictures
out and placing, approximately at the place I want to see the picture in the
finished product, perhaps an HTML link to the file location of the picture.
Does this make sense to you? I am uncertain whether this is technically a
simple process.

Please leave me a line of encouragement and advice if available.

Rudolf


PS: Re leaving my real address with the document, I am trying to including
it as a gif encoded picture. My ISP has not figured out yet how to filter
those pictures (from spammers) out. Hopefully, the servers handling the
newsgroups haven't either.



Elliott Roper wrote on 5/14/06 10:09 AM

In article <C08BD653.16AA6%postonly@xxxxxxxxxx>, incognito
<postonly@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi CyberTaz,

Thank you very, very much for the enlightenment!

I have used Word for many years, in Windows as well as with the Mac, but
usually for light and easy material. I truly did not want to become an
expert in publishing and thought it would be easy to do a special
'retirement project'. I will have to rethink my strategy, since I do not
want to give up this project but I also do not want to trouble shoot the
document every so often as has been the case. Granted, since I subdivided
the document into a bunch of subdocs, it has been more consistent, but it
also has been frustrating and time-consuming.

Where could I get advice for some decent publishing software? Any
suggestion? I hate to give up.

Hi Rudolph, you have gotten some very good but conflicting advice from
the experts in here. I guess the conflict arises because each took a
different view of your requirement.

It is possible to lay out documents in Word with pictures where you
want them, as long as you set the bar rather low.
Everything that John McGhie says is right, especially about keeping
text and layout apart till you are near the end.
If you are really "publishing" your finished work, then you should take
Bob CyberTaz Jones' advice. Keeping control of a heavily illustrated
document in Word - all the way to the printing company - is harder than
herding cats. It really isn't meant to do that kind of work.

What nobody else ever says in these discussions is that InDesign is
actually very easy to learn. It is far far easier to produce an average
to good layout with InDesign than it is with Word. Where it, and other
"publishing" applications like Quark, excels is that you can go on to
produce truly beautiful publications with excellent typography and
perfect picture placing in a way that will normally arrive back from
the printer exactly as you meant it to look.

If layout and typography is important to you, you might as well give up
on Word sooner rather than later.

If you really need to place the pictures precisely. If you want CMYK
colours, If you want masks and alpha channels and clipping paths, if
you want to do proper hyphenation and justification per paragraph
instead of per line, if you want hanging punctuation, if you want
proper copy fitting, if you want to take full advantage of large type
families, if you want to ensure your columns of type line up their
baselines, then it is a no-brainer.

However, do remember that Word is a far better environment for editing
the text than trying to do that job in InDesign. You will find that
careful style definition between the two will pay off handsomely. Word
documents pour into InDesign layouts rather well.

Use the tool for the job. Word for word processing. InDesign for
publishing, layout and typography.

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