BUG: Wd2007 Saving as web page with drawings- Horrible pixelation

C

C. Moya

When saving as Web Page (either Filtered or not- see P.S. below), Word 2007
mucks up drawings that contain text. This did not happen with Word 2003 (or
earlier for that matter). The text produced is horribly unreadable.

Screenshots:
Word 2003
http://www.cflashsoft.com/temp/wd02drawtext_sc1.png
Word 2007 (ugh!!!)
http://www.cflashsoft.com/temp/wd07drawtext_sc1.png

Word 2007 is absolutely UNUSABLE for creating technical documentation
because of this. I hate this! Why destroy a perfectly working feature? Was
this release even QA'd?

P.S.
Saving as Web Page (not filtered) produces the same result... except you
wouldn't know it unless you used a browser other than IE! Before some "MVP"
suggests this option, check it out for yourself first.
 
P

Patrick Schmid [MVP]

What happens if you save as PNG?
What fonts are you using?
What happens if you save as PDF?
What kind of drawings are this (in other words, how did you make them)?

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C

C. Moya

What kind of drawings are this (in other words, how did you make them)?

These are Word textboxes... either when placed in a Drawing Canvas or inline
with text... it doesn't matter. It's also easy to reproduce. Just create a
new document, Insert, Text Box. Type some text. Save As Web Page (Filtered)
(see P.S. in original post). Word 2003 (and prior AFAIK) saves them
beautifully... Word 2007 destroys them.
What happens if you save as PNG?
Click to expand...

Haven't changed the "Allow save as PNG" option. I shouldn't have to.
What fonts are you using?
Click to expand...

I tried Times New Roman, Arial, and even Calibri. All same horrible result.
What happens if you save as PDF?
Click to expand...

Don't know. That's not what I'm trying to do.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

Patrick Schmid said:
What happens if you save as PNG?
What fonts are you using?
What happens if you save as PDF?
What kind of drawings are this (in other words, how did you make them)?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Click to expand...
 
P

Patrick Schmid [MVP]

These are Word textboxes... either when placed in a Drawing Canvas or
inline
with text... it doesn't matter. It's also easy to reproduce. Just create a
new document, Insert, Text Box. Type some text. Save As Web Page (Filtered)
(see P.S. in original post). Word 2003 (and prior AFAIK) saves them
beautifully... Word 2007 destroys them.
Click to expand...
Sorry, I don't repro this. I made a text box, added some text and saved
it as webpage and webpage filtered. Then I looked at the page in
Firefox. It looks perfectly fine.

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C

C. Moya

Patrick Schmid said:
Sorry, I don't repro this. I made a text box, added some text and saved it
as webpage and webpage filtered. Then I looked at the page in Firefox. It
looks perfectly fine.
Click to expand...

What do you mean by "It looks perfectly fine?" Can you post a screen shot or
at least the resulting GIF that Word creates of the textbox (it's put in
xxxx_files subfolder).
 
C

C. Moya

Aha!... you didn't change the textbox to be inline with text (right-click
Format Textbox). I just discovered if I leave the textbox as a floating
textbox, the problem doesn't manifest itself.

However, it does manifest itself with floating Callouts.
 
P

Patrick Schmid [MVP]

I repro it now. It seems to be a general bug in the image creation
algorithm. The PDF algorithm, which is different from the image one,
creates the textbox just fine.
Thanks for catching that! I'll send it over to MS and see what they say.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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C

C. Moya

Hope its fixed ASAP. This is kind of a showstopper for us.

Thank you for taking the time to check it out with me. :)

P.S.
I also think it's kinda odd that an inline textbox gets converted into a
picture, while a floating one gets converted into a table (or div or
whatever). I dunno...

Anyway, regardless of anything, all the contents of a Drawing Canvas as well
as Autoshape Callouts get converted into a pictures... so the problem
manifests itself in them too. It's a big problem!

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

Patrick Schmid said:
I repro it now. It seems to be a general bug in the image creation
algorithm. The PDF algorithm, which is different from the image one,
creates the textbox just fine.
Thanks for catching that! I'll send it over to MS and see what they say.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
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Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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Click to expand...
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi C.,

The link you posted was to a filtered version of the file.
Can you post or link to the .doc/.docx and the unfiltered .htm file?

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And here's an example. http://www.cflashsoft.com/temp/wd07callouts.htm
Change your textbox to be inline or otherwise use a callout and tell me now
you can't repro.

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-C. Moya >>
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MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
P

Patrick Schmid [MVP]

I think this might be related to the server. Is it IIS? If yes, the MIME
types are probably not set up correctly for the new file extensions.

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