Pub 2002 pics out of focus

[Ocoee]

Created business cards and brochures and worked fine.

Now open docs and pics used in background out of focus and prints that way.
Create new docs and pics out of focus.

 

[Mary Sauer]

What format are the pictures? Have you resized them?

 

[Ocoee]

HI Mary,

PIcs are JPG, once in PUb I will resize.

My backgrouind may be of some use to you. Many years ago I worked corporate
and did a great deal of work in Quark. I am now self employed running a
digital photography service. I use PS elements 2 on a regular basis, not
detailed work, mostly simple fixes. Also, I build my own systems.

I built my business card in pub and printed several times. Recently I open
it and the background photo is out of focus. All photos are OOF when imported
even before I resize.

Another odd thing... I unist PUb to see if a reinstall would help. After
the unist PhotoShop was also gone!! I now remember that about the time this
problem started I was have problems with pics in PUb. I would try certain
changes and it would cause PS 2 to popup. Can't remember exactly what I was
doing, it was late at night.

Hope some of this helps

TRT

 

[Mary Sauer]

I can't figure out why you are viewing blurry pictures and they print blurry as well.
Some .eps images will view blurry but will print correctly. Faulty video drivers will
sometimes blur images, but they will print clear. I suspect you are having some
corruption going on, maybe the .jpg filter is faulty.
If you are re-sizing the images up, they will become pixilated, which will cause a
blurry look.

Rename your .jpg filter and drag a new instance from your setup disk, see if that
helps. The filters are in a folder similar to this:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Grphflt
Rename JPEGIM32.FLT TO JPEGIM32.OLD.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Some .eps images will view blurry but will print
correctly.

EPS images will only print correctly on a PostScript printer.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Ed, I have used .eps files in Publisher forever, some look pretty bad on the screen
but they print fine. I don't have a postscript printer. These are not converted
images. What is correctly?
I use Irfanview as a viewer, I have .eps files the program will not open because the
images do not have TIF or WMF inside, advising using GhostView. I can get those files
into Publisher without GhostView and they print okay, I will admit the color is lost.
I can convert them in CorelDraw and retain the color.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Ed, I have used .eps files in Publisher forever, some look pretty
bad on the screen but they print fine. I don't have a postscript
printer. These are not converted images. What is correctly?

OK, rephrase my comment to "Are not guaranteed to".

When printing to a PostScript printer or printer driver, Publisher passes
the PostScript data straight through.

Displaying on-screen, Publisher will either interpret the included
PostScript or display a preview (depending on the Publisher version and type
of PostScript file).

I was certain that when printing on a non-PostScript printer driver, the
same data were used. Now I'm confused.

 

[Ocoee]

All photos taken with Canon 20d, all scaling is down not up.

Using business card as sample, print preview is now clear, print is good,
basic doc is still blurry.

I found a MS reference to reseting filter and it suggested deleting
registry entry. So I Unistalled PUB, renamed JPEGIM32.OLD, went into
registry and deleted

"8. Use Registry Editor to remove the JPEG value from the following registry
keys:

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/Graphic Filters/ Export

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Shared Tools/Graphic Filters/ Import
"

based on reference http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=193354

All filters gone then restored with reinstall of Pub. Again, doc still
blurry. waaaaaaaaaa

 

[Mary Sauer]

Can you send me one of your documents? If I get a blurry image then we can assume you
have some corrupt images.
gsauer at columbus dot rr dot com