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One for the tech-heads - Andy? Ron?
I'm making a webpage from something sent to me as a Word document: I'm doing the html myself, rather than via Word, obviously, because that's a horrible way to do things.
I'm on a Mac, OSX 10.4, Word 2004 for Mac.
My document has images in it, which in the Word doc are of a nice resolution. But whenever I extract them and turn them into jpgs, the image quality drops quite steeply. At the moment my process of extracting is: control-click > save as picture > Format = JPEG
Is there a better way to extract the images without losing res? (The pix need to be gifs or jpgs at the end.)
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« Reply #1 on: 17:38:10, 01-02-2008 » |
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I'm no expert. What format are the images on the word doc? Do right click, properties. Are they bitmap?
If so save as .bmp then do a save as .jpg or use a neat bit of free software called Irfan to convert to .jpg
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« Reply #2 on: 17:55:08, 01-02-2008 » |
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They're PNGs John. The problem isn't necessarily converting them to jpgs - its just that when I do so, the quality goes down. I'll have a look at Irfan though (I use ImageWell at the moment). Edit: no I won't - it's Windows only  |
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« Reply #3 on: 17:55:31, 01-02-2008 » |
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There's no right-clicking on a Mac, John, so that won't work. I don't run Word on the Mac either, so I can't even try a dummy run to work it out for myself: do Richard B or inko run Word on a Mac?
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« Reply #4 on: 17:57:33, 01-02-2008 » |
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How would you do it on a PC, Ron (I can move the offending file to a different machine if it might help, although going to Windows to solve a graphics problem seems counter-intuitive!).
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« Reply #5 on: 18:02:21, 01-02-2008 » |
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I guess in very much the same way that John would, although it's not something I've ever had to do....  I'm afraid you might have to wait for Andy on this one.... |
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« Reply #6 on: 18:11:10, 01-02-2008 » |
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Thanks anyway, Ron.
Hmm, I see that PNGs are basically as widely compatible as JPGs anyway. I might just save myself the trouble and not convert them after all (they're not big images so the relative increase in size won't make much difference).
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« Reply #7 on: 18:12:21, 01-02-2008 » |
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I guess in very much the same way that John would, although it's not something I've ever had to do.... I'm afraid you might have to wait for Andy on this one.... I doubt I can help as I only used a Mac for the first time the other day and I've long since given up using Word. Other than that I'm a complete expert  Can't you use them as .pngs? It might be like going from one lossy audio format to another. |
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« Reply #8 on: 18:15:12, 01-02-2008 » |
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See above message Andy - I think I might try them as PNGs, once I've checked for myself that that's compatible enough with everything.
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« Reply #9 on: 18:39:56, 01-02-2008 » |
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I'm using a PC. Just checking backon something I did this earlier today, I saved a .png off a wiki page and then I opened it with an old program I have Serif Photoplus,h you can then Export (save) the image as .jpg The jpg image is on my message today (violin thread).
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« Reply #10 on: 20:43:18, 01-02-2008 » |
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As a rather mad work-around, could you maximise the screen-view of the pic in question, and then do a screen-grab to get the image? You can then trim and tidy it before use?
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« Reply #11 on: 21:53:36, 01-02-2008 » |
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You should definitely leave them as PNGs, there aren't really enough compatibility issues any more to make that worth worrying about -- but otherwise, converting to .gifs should be ok -- have you tried that? Am I right in assuming that they aren't photographs?
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« Reply #12 on: 12:27:44, 02-02-2008 » |
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I haven't tried gifs, but I think I'll stick with png - thanks for the tip.
(No they're not photos - music examples)
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« Reply #13 on: 08:16:36, 30-03-2008 » |
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This is probably far too late in the day (as it were) to be of any use...
I've never had to deal with this sort of problem before (and in fact the thought hadn't occurred to me before) so I tried it out.
Am I right in thinking that the problem comes with Word's extraction problem rather than with any specific conversion issues? If you need to have the files as themselves, you can always save the document as a webpage, which will create a folder with the files for that document. You can then pick out the graphics file that you need and bin the rest.
As I said that might be an overly simplistic solution, you sound quite happy with pngs, and I'm a month late.
So apart from that Mrs Lincoln...
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« Reply #14 on: 08:39:37, 30-03-2008 » |
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There's no right-clicking on a Mac
There is if you replace your Mac mouse with a two-button mouse (mine has a wheel as well); because OSX is based on Unix, it handles a normal mouse OK.
Also, OSX comes with GraphicConverter as standard - have you tried using that? The Save As dialogue has a quality section which might help.
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