Re: PDF and Word graphics problem

Subject: Re: PDF and Word graphics problem
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:31:54 -0700

Steve Hudson wrote:
>
> 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.

I haven't ever seen this behavior. Maybe it's because I use the
\* MERGEFORMAT option to retain any formatting applied directly to
field results. (I wouldn't have thought it pertained to what you
describe, but it might be worth looking into.)

--David

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