D
Dick Smith
I received a .jpg as an attachment to mail. I produced a Word document and
then inserted the file as an object in the Insert Object dialog. The icon is
a Paint Shop Photo Album icon. This showed me that the object type was Paint
Shop Photo Album, and hence it was produced by Paint Shop by the original
creator. (All my own .jpg file associations point to Adobe PhotoDeluxe,
though file associations are perhaps irrelevant here.) I then attempted to
convert the object type of the imbedded file to something else (thinking to
redefine it as a Adobe PhotoDeluxe object) by selecting the icon in the Word
document, then Edit/ImageFileObject/Convert. Tthe dialog window shows only
Paint Shop Photo Album Picture as a choice for conversion, so there's no way
to convert it to anything else. Also, the Activate As button is grayed out.
No problem, however, in redefining the icon, but that doesn't change the
file type of the underlying file.
How can I redefine this object type? Am I correct in believing that if I
send this document, with imbedded photo, to someone else, he/she can open it
only with the application identified in the file type? If that's the case,
there seems to be no hope in sending a Word file with imbedded .jpg object
to a wide variety of recipients, since each of them probably has a different
photoediting application, probably not matching the file type I've assigned,
and hence they can't open the imbedded photo. Is this gloomy assessment
correct?.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Windows XP Pro SP2, Word 2003 SP1.
then inserted the file as an object in the Insert Object dialog. The icon is
a Paint Shop Photo Album icon. This showed me that the object type was Paint
Shop Photo Album, and hence it was produced by Paint Shop by the original
creator. (All my own .jpg file associations point to Adobe PhotoDeluxe,
though file associations are perhaps irrelevant here.) I then attempted to
convert the object type of the imbedded file to something else (thinking to
redefine it as a Adobe PhotoDeluxe object) by selecting the icon in the Word
document, then Edit/ImageFileObject/Convert. Tthe dialog window shows only
Paint Shop Photo Album Picture as a choice for conversion, so there's no way
to convert it to anything else. Also, the Activate As button is grayed out.
No problem, however, in redefining the icon, but that doesn't change the
file type of the underlying file.
How can I redefine this object type? Am I correct in believing that if I
send this document, with imbedded photo, to someone else, he/she can open it
only with the application identified in the file type? If that's the case,
there seems to be no hope in sending a Word file with imbedded .jpg object
to a wide variety of recipients, since each of them probably has a different
photoediting application, probably not matching the file type I've assigned,
and hence they can't open the imbedded photo. Is this gloomy assessment
correct?.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Windows XP Pro SP2, Word 2003 SP1.