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MSWord is a heaving pile of #%*@! Can't insert graphics
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I hate Microsoft more than ever. I'm trying to write my thesis and all I want to do is insert some figures into Word. My figures were made in Canvas and I've tried saving them as PDF, EPS, TIFF, but nothing inserts correctly. The images are always fuzzy on the screen and fuzzy when I print them. Is there a workaround for this?
thanks,
kman
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"If it's broke, you choke."
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Originally posted by Vader’s Pinch of Death:
try 300 dpi
i tried 300, 600, 1200. it's all the same.
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72 dpi? 
Make sure Word isn't trying to resize tiffs. I'd expect EPS to work, but I haven't tried in a while (and I don't have an EPS file to try).
Edit - oh, make sure Word's page zoom is set to 100% when you're working on screen.
Can't explain why its fuzzy on paper unless Word is attempting to scale the graphics.
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This topic was just being discussed in the 'Graphs' thread a few days ago - a bit at least. The upshot of that was that EPS files can work but Word v.X doesn't properly import PDFs or anything like that with vector information  .
I find this rather odd given that OS X does a lot with PDFs - and in my experience, TextEdit has exactly the same problem - the PDFs may look okay on screen viewed at 100% in Word, but if you view at any other size, you see the horrible blurred mess that is also what comes out of the printer! I really hope that this is fixed for Word with Office 2004, but I'm not holding my breath.
I have managed to get it to work with word by first doing an import into Freehand and saving as a TIFF at 300 DPI, but this is quite a detour from what should be fine as a simple copy and paste operation  !
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With complex graphics, it's always best to edit a copy of the graphic file to fit the page, and insert the edited copy. In other words, let your graphics program do all the graphics work. This gives you control of the actual size and resolution, keeps your word processor (Word or anything else) from having to mess with (and mess up) your graphic, and makes the document smaller as well.
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Glenn -----
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