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Subject:RE: PDF and Word graphics problem From:"Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:12:26 +1000
To further screw the issue up, Word has a 'nasty' way of dealing with gfx.
It saves the frame size, so that it can flow and paginate text before having
to fetch the binary image data. This is fine - until you edit the original
graphic and reload the document (more applicable to linked gfx than embedded
please note). What happens is, Word draws the same frame size as before,
then stretches the new graphic to fit that. Kiss your aspect ratio goodbye,
and sometimes all legibility.
Sometimes it takes multiple save / open / edits before the new settings
stick.
1) Cut n paste all but last para mark into a new doc. If you have lotsa gfx,
you have lotsa bad baggage waiting in the wings to trip you up.
2) Re-insert troubled pix into place, then delete their previous
incarnation.
3) Use Alt+F9 to reveal field codes, and check you dont have spuriously
fully-qualified path names instead of relative.
Steve Hudson
Lead Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- www -dot- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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