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RE: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields
Subject:RE: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields From:"Thomas Johnson" <tajohnson -at- microlinetc -dot- com> To:"'Chinell, David F \(GE Indust, Security\)'" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>, <tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:28:27 -0500
I wasn't paying attention to the start of this thread, but I just had a
similar problem this afternoon. For some reason, when you copy the picture
out of Word using the copy command, it reduces the color depth to 256
colors. Doing a screen capture gets you the full color depth of whatever is
there.
A bit of investigation revealed a couple work-arounds. You can either save
the Word document as HTML. Word will conveniently export the images in the
document as *.jpg and *.png and place them in a new subfolder (*_files).
Another method is to save the document as a PDF and then you can copy the
images without losing color depth.
At least I learned how to fix the problem so the last hour wasn't wasted.
Thomas Johnson
Microline Technology Corp.
Traverse City, MI
tajohnson -at- microlinetc -dot- com
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Subject: RE: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields
Tom:
I experience that as well (Word 2000). I think it happens when Word loses
track of some vital bit of information about the application that created
the object. My fix is always to open the previous version, copy the graphic
and paste it into the new version. No changes, no nothing. It never seems to
happen twice to the same graphic, so once I've replaced it with itself, I'm
solid.
Bear
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Subject: Strange Word reaction concerning graphics when updating fields
Is anyone familar with the term:
"Error! Objects cannot be created from editing field codes."?
I have a doc that a client has filled with graphics that he took from
PowerPoint with SnagIt (BMP) and cut and pasted into the document.
I have created the Figure Captions and when I update fields, the graphics go
away and that statement is in it's place as a field code.
Anyone else come across this and do you know how I can fix it? I have done a
couple of fixes by copying the graphic into Illustrator and saving it for
web as PNG 24 or a GIF but it seems to lose quite a lot of quality.
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