paste special as jpeg gives blacked out image or no image

[Ken]

First off, I have picture placeholders turned off so that is not the problem...

I recently started seeing this with Word 2003. If I have a metafile and cut
it and past special as a jpeg one of 2 things happens. Either the background
of the image becomes black (which isn't too helpful if axis labels are black)
or no image shows up (but the picture toolbar does). If no image shows up,
then clicking on the format picture button on the picture toolbar and
selecting a fill color of black results in either a thick black border around
the image or a blacked--out background.

The only way to put images in my files as jpegs is to cut and paste special
as a bitmap and then cut and paste the bitmap as a jpeg. Of course Word is
stupid and only converts the vector graphics to raster graphics at screen
resolution, so I have to open another document and make the metafile image as
large as possible for this process.

Is this something new?

Inserting jpegs using insert file from picture seems to work.

 

[CyberTaz]

Word isn't "stupid", it's a *word processing program* which you are
attempting to use in place of a decent graphics editor It's like trying
to drive screws with a hammer & blaming either the "stupid hammer" and/or
the "stupid screw" for splitting the wood.

Convert your graphics with the appropriate software, use the Insert>
Picture> From File... method to get them into your doc & start enjoying some
measure of inner harmony

If you don't have Photoshop or something of the sort there are a number of
useful apps available - some of which are inexpensive or free, such as:

http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[Ken]

I figured out how to avoid the problem with the black background when pasting
as jpeg. Apparently the paste as jpeg function converts any lack of
background to black. Before cutting or copying the picture, double-click on
it and set the background to white, not no background. Also, to avoid
jaggies on text, copy the vector graphics image to a new document and make
the image as large as possible so that when Word pastes at screen resolution
(~72-96 dpi) you get a better raster image which you can shrink back down to
the desired size.

On a related note, I would say I'm not using Word as a graphics editor, but
merely trying to put excel charts in a Word file without the file becoming
too large. For instance, a 40-page technical report with charts and figures
should not end up in the hundreds of megs. It just seems odd that MS chose to
use the screen resolution rather than a typical print resolution when doing
the vector-to-raster conversion. This option is available in the compress
pictures.

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry if I got the wrong impression. Your description of "metafies",
"pasting as jpegs", "bitmaps"... I don't understand how I missed the fact
that you're dealing with Excel Charts

Why not just copy the chart, then Edit> Paste Special> MS Excel Chart Object
or Insert> Object> From File...? Then scale them to size. Either method
produces 200 ppi scalable graphics. As far as file size, I'm currently
working with a 209 page manual with approx. 2 dozen such embedded charts
plus other graphics and embedded objects, TOC, Index, TOF, tables & frames -
total file size = 2,052 KB.