clip art looks bad

[Julia]

I am creating a web site using Publisher 2003, and uploading it with Smart
FTP. I am using an image from the Office Online Clip Art site - it looks
great in Publisher, but on the web page it is fuzzy and the girl is missing
one eye. The only tip I could find in Publisher Help is View/Pictures/Detail
Display, and that was already checked. I googled this group, but couldn't
find a similar posting.

Can anyone tell me how I can correct this problem?

http://home.earthlink.net/~julia222/GS/


Thank you,
Julia Skiles

 

[Mary Sauer]

What format is the picture? Are you manually re-sizing the image if it is a .gif
or .jpg?

 

[gregm]

It looks like the image is a gif (the orginal clipart is a .wmf)

I think the problem may be that the image is being displayed by the browser
at a different size to the original. That means the browser needs to re-size
the image. As that can be an intensive task, most browsers resize using a
simple algorithm, resulting in a poorer quality picture, normally caused by
not using anti-aliasing.(Alternatively the image has been resized already but
not with anti-aliasing on)

Solution: Include images in the webpage so that they are displayed at their
true size. Generally that means resizing the images in a graphics program
first (e.g. photoshop or Corel photopaint) with anti-aliasing on. Then put
these pictures in publisher and make sure that the size of the image in
publisher in pixels matches the size of the image created by the graphics
program. The user's browser therefore won't need to make any rescaling.


G.

 

[DavidF]

Mary,

What is the default format for clipart?

DavidF

 

[Mary Sauer]

Vector clipart is .wmf, photos are .jpg and animation is .gif.

 

[DavidF]

When your clipart image is inserted, it is a *.*wmf image, but it is
resized, resampled and converted by default, to a lower quality GIF image by
Publisher during the Publish to the Web process.

You could follow gregm's advice and convert, and resize, etc. the clipart to
a GIF or PNG if you want transparency, in a third party image editing
program, and then insert it into your Publisher document. You can also
insert just copy your clipart, and paste special as a JPG if you don't care
about transparency, and want the quickest way of doing it. Or perhaps Mary,
the clipart expert, could suggest a best way to convert the *.*wmf file.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

I must be tired. I didn't mean "You can also insert just copy your
clipart...". I meant to say "You can also just copy your clipart...". du'oh!
Too quick to click...sorry.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Or...why not just live with it? After all it is clipart...a cartoon...know
one will know it isn't as good as the original, except you.

DavidF

 

[Julia]

Thanks for the advice. Mary and Greg, too. I will try converting the
clipart .wmf to a gif.

Julia