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Subject:Re: My cropped graphics won't compress From:"Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> Date:Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:01:52 +0530
On 6/1/07, Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Better yet, why don't people faced with these situations get smart and
download a for-real, powerful and efficient image editor like the GIMP? ( http://gimp.org) It's available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It's free and
open-source (though enthusiasts will correctly tell me I have gotten the
order of attributes wrong there :-)
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