RE: Photo formats in Word

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>]

If you're asking whether you can decide after the fact to save an
embedded image as a separate graphics file, the answer is "Yes, but ...
"  The most obvious possibility doesn't work -- that being to select the
graphic, hit "Copy," go to your graphics program, and hit "Paste."  A
floating graphic simply will not paste, and an inline graphic will show
up as a poor-quality image.  (It's got something to do with the fact
that you're not actually putting the graphic into the buffer, but rather
he screen representation of that graphic, which doesn't have all the
data.

So you have three possibilities that I know about:

	*	If you can display the entire graphic on your screen,
you can simply do a screen capture of that.

	*	Save your document as HTML.  This will create a file of
all images in your document.  Each will be saved as both a JPG and a PNG
or GIF.  The PNG/GIF version will be the one you should use.  This has
the advantage of extracting all graphics at once, and the disadvantage
of giving them all generic names like "00001."

	*	Select the image and enter "copy," but paste into
PowerPoint.  Apparently, this WILL capture the entire graphic, which you
can then select and do a "Save as."

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Konkle-Parker [mailto:joel -dot- j -dot- konkle-parker -at- nasa -dot- gov] 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: Photo formats in Word


For my current manual, I've just been grabbing screenshots of my app and

pasting them into my Word document. This is easy, and it works, but it
has 
me questioning the efficiency of it. If I saved the shots as files, I
could 
optimize them for size and such. How does this work for pasted images in
my 
Word document?

Thanks for the help.



Joel Konkle-Parker

NASA Langley Research Center
Vehicle Analysis Branch

Phone   [757-864-4446]
E-mail  [joel -dot- j -dot- konkle-parker -at- nasa -dot- gov] 
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