RE: My cropped graphics won't compress

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

Julia,

Ed's questions seem to clear up my confusion about your question if you are
doing all of your formatting in Word.  Are you using Word's built in "crop"
features to resize the image?  That doesn't work very well.  Put the image,
preferably the original image but copying the inline graphic will work, into
a graphics program, preferably a good one, but Paint will work, and resize
it there.  

I've had jobs where I wasn't permitted to use a graphics program because the
employer didn't have a license, so I had to use Paint.  If you have to use
Paint, then open or paste the image into Paint, select what you want and
paste it as a new image.  Then copy that and paste it back into Word.  

Dang, I hate tightwads.  Why can't they just buy a graphics program?  They
do use graphics.  All of those charts and screenshots are graphics.
Cheapskates.

Lauren
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com 
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus -dot- edu -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On 
> Behalf Of Edgar D' Souza
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:38 PM
> To: Julia Norquist
> Cc: techwr-l
> Subject: Re: My cropped graphics won't compress
> 
> On 6/1/07, Julia Norquist <techiejules -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know why cropped graphics in Word might return to their
> > original size? I've been compressing each graphic and 
> deleting the cropped
> > area (the parts I cut off), and that usually works. 
> However, sometimes,
> > after I compress a graphic, it returns to its uncropped 
> size. Why does this
> > happen? This happens to the same graphics I've used in 
> several places, and I
> > don't know why.
> >
> 
> That's not too clear, unfortunately. Could you please explain:
> a) How are you "compressing" the graphics?
> b) "Cropping" itself means deleting parts of an image that 
> are outside a
> selected area; "deleting the cropped area" is not only redundant, it's
> confusing :-)
> c) You're mixing "compression" with "cropping" somehow, when you say
> "sometimes, after I compress a graphic, it returns to its 
> uncropped size."
> 
> I assume you're using an image editor to crop the image. You 
> then save the
> image to a file on disk, and link the image file into Word. 
> To the best of
> my knowledge, the only "compression" available depends on the 
> image format
> in which you save your image - JPEG or PNG, for example. Also 
> to the best of
> my knowledge, there is no way to use *Word* to compress graphics.
> 
> I suspect you mean "resizing" and not "compressing" - is that 
> a good guess?
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
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