are embedded TIFFs lossy?

A

Al

I just inserted 18 TIFFs (212 Kb each) into a Word doc,
and resized them each at 75%. The resulting doc (including
short captions) is only 436 Kb.

There is a lot of black in the images, so I'm not
surprised that substantial compression is realised, but I
can't find any mention of graphic compression in the (Word
2000 Pro) documentation or on-line help.

I expect to spend a lot of money on colour laser printing
(for my PhD thesis), and I don't want to be surprised by
image degradation. Is whatever Word is doing to these
TIFFs lossy, or will the printed results be as good as if
I had inserted links to the TIFFs instead of embedding
them?

Cheers!
 
G

garfield-n-odie

Starting with Word 97, Word stores JPG graphics in native format, and
internally converts other graphic formats to PNG. PNG is a lossless
compression format. TIF is commonly uncompressed, or sometimes
LZH-compressed (also a lossless format). So your TIF images should be
okay. But it wouldn't hurt to have your printer print a few samples
pages so you will know *before* your thesis is due whether the printed
output is satisfactory. Hope this helps.
 
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