How to link to an image?

[Mary Sauer]

Insert, object, tick create from file, browse to file, tick link

 

[JHeske]

I use Publisher 2003.

I would like to be able to add a reference to an image file. I want to be
able to size it and have it stay that way. If I change the image outside
Publisher I want the change to be refleced in Publisher. This makes sense
if you have lots of images that change frequently as you design your
document.

I embedded an image and it looked and printed great. Once I changed it to
"save as linked," the quality of the image was completely destroyed. It has
a high dpi, but it still looks blurry, nothing at all like the original
embedded image. Also, I edited the image outside Publisher and it didn't
change in Publisher. Seems to me you should be able to do this.

By the way, why "save as linked" and not just "link to file." My image
files already exist and I just want to link to them so changes will be
reflected.

Thanks very much for any insights.

-jheske

 

[Ed Bennett]

I would like to be able to add a reference to an image file. I want to be
able to size it and have it stay that way. If I change the image outside
Publisher I want the change to be refleced in Publisher. This makes sense
if you have lots of images that change frequently as you design your
document.

Insert > Picture > From File.

Select your file.

Click the drop-down chevron on the Insert button, and hit Link To File.

(Rather more elegant than inserting an OLE Object.)

 

[JHeske]

Thanks for the reply and the shortcut. This still does not explain why my
linked pictures can't have the same high quality as my embedded ones.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks for the reply and the shortcut. This still does not explain why my
linked pictures can't have the same high quality as my embedded ones.

That's because you Save As Link'd. Saving as an image from Publisher
normally alters the resolution of the image, and thus causes quality
reduction.

 

[JHeske]

I figured out pretty quickly that there was no way to link an image and
maintain its quality. What I don't understand is why I have to sacrifice
image quality just to have a link. That's crazy! I can't see any reason to
degrade quality, especially when the image is no more than a link to an
external file.

I guess I don't expect an answer to this one. I just have to wonder what MS
was thinking.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I figured out pretty quickly that there was no way to link an image and
maintain its quality.

Insert > Picture > (Down arrow) > Link to file does NOT degrade image
quality.