Re: Problems pasting TIF image into Notebook document.

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Glad I could help! Many times copy/paste doesn't work as we'd like because
it bypasses Word's tools for interpreting the image file type & has to make
a 'conversion' that is less than optimal. Stay with the Insert>Object
technique & you should fair far better.

As far as the scanner situation, I can't say. It's possible that your
unit/driver may not be compatible with the feature. You might check the
Microtek web site to see if there is an update available or guidance from
their support people on the issue.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 6/24/06 5:09 PM, in article
1151183343.021911.214980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Many thanks, Bob

CyberTaz wrote:
Try it this way - rather than opening in Preview.

In your Word doc go to Insert>Picture>From File. Navigate to & select the
file. See if that makes a difference. This really is the preferred method
for getting an image into a Word doc.

This worked!

BTW - You might review any printed or on-line documentation for you scanner
& software. Scanner settings can easily determine the usability of an image.
Also, if you use Insert>Picture you should find that you can directly
acquire an image from your scanner without creating a separate file.

When I tried this I got an error message: "Unable to connect to camera
or scanner. Check the connection and reinstall driver if necessary."

Since the scanner is working presumably does it really need its driver
reinstalled? How does Word connect to it?

John
On 6/23/06 1:27 PM, in article
1151083660.910224.65410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Bob

Many thanks. I'm not technically adept. All I can say is that I use
Microtek Scanwizard 5 V7.22.

The image was a diagram in B&W text. When I pressed SCAN TO it saved
the image as a TIFF file, at 300 dpi. The size of the file was 788KB.
Hence wasn't color mode, but I've no idea how many bits.

When I double-clicked on the file, my Mac used Preview to open it (I
don't have Photoshop) and I copied the image from there and pasted into
my Word document.

John


CyberTaz wrote:
Hi john -

It could be that the TIFF is greater than 8-bit and/or CMYK color mode,
neither of which can be effectively displayed in Word.

If possible process the imasge in Photoshop (or whatever) as an 8-bit
RGB TIFF & use that. There should be no problem. Keep in mind, though,
that 220 - 300 ppi is all the resolution required, so if the image is
higher than that you might want to further process it at the same time
fro print dimensions & resolution.

Since TIFFs can still be quite large you might also consider Linking
rather than embedding the image to keep file size down. Just be sure it
is available at print time.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac

john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Phil

No to both.

If I resize the picture smaller the same proportion of blank band
appears.

This is also the case if I paste into a regular Word doc (as distinct
from a Notebook doc).

The only way I can reduce the width of the band is to omit the right
hand (vertical) quarter of the image that I am copying from Preview -
and even then the black band only reduces from about a third of the
image to a sixth of the image.

John

PhilD wrote:
john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi

When I copy a picture in TIF format into a Word Notebook document a
black vertical band obscures the right hand quarter of the picture,
even though the picture does not have this band in the Scrapbook view.
I've tried pasting into the Normal and Page Layout views of the
Notebook document, but no improvement.


1st thought (I am sure others will be along soon with better ideas):

Is the picture stretching beyond the right hand margin (as opposed to
edge of page)? If you resize the picture smaller, does the black band
disappear (or at least reduce)?

PhilD

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