copy and paste picture error?

[Ristar]

Office 2002

whenever i copy and paste pictures, straight from pdf files, the picture
that appears in Word appears to be tilted on the side... which is mildly
annoying since i have to change the orientation to make it upright manually,
by clicking the button 3 times.


the real problem is, the copy and pasted picture is of VERY low quality,
because the sides of rectangles (i copy a lot of diagrams to make notes) and
whatnot, loses/gains thickness in addition to disappearing sometimes
(depending on the height/width adjusted), and words can hardly be read
(without effort).


how do i go about fixing these problems?

 

[Terry Farrell]

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" comes to mind. If the
original pictures are low quality, Word cannot make them any better. You may
get a graphics utility to improve them but without seeing what you are
trying in insert into Word, it is difficult to know if it is going to be
possible.

 

[Ristar]

NOPE, wrong answer, terry. im not a moron that expects a high quality pic
when i input a very low quality one into word. i mean, come on, im a uni
student, not some bumbling old fool who's trying to learn how to use a
computer and thinks that a mouse is a black thing that steals food and runs
very fast. lol.

the original images are high quality, from pdf files, and they are just
simple diagrams from lecture notes. using adobe, i can see the diagrams just
fine, they are rather high quality; they look very sharp, and they are quite
large too.

it might help if u know that if i do the same thing on my laptop, the same
app gives me good, high quality, images that havent been rotated for God
knows wat reason.

so yeah, im here to figure out wat the heck went wrong so i can fix it.

 

[Ristar]

as for wat diagrams, uh, imagine something like...

oh, yeah, the OSI reference model. that kinda diagrams. a lot of rectangles,
arrows, lines and texts.

 

[Gordon]

NOPE, wrong answer, terry. im not a moron that expects a high quality pic
when i input a very low quality one into word. i mean, come on, im a uni
student,

HA HA HA! (and the word, BTW is UNIVERSITY not "uni") you declare your
"status" by your very poor use of English, including lack of capitalisation
and no apostrophes in "im". Are you studying at something that used to be a
Technical College, and now under this silly government calls itself a
"University"?

 

[Gordon]

as for wat diagrams, uh, imagine something like...

oh, yeah, the OSI reference model. that kinda diagrams. a lot of
rectangles,
arrows, lines and texts.

And this is the product of a "UNIVERSITY"????????

 

[Ristar]

I'm writing on an Internet forum, not an essay that I would be graded for.
Thanks for your really useless comment, which is uncalled for. However, I
would prefer it if you could just STFU!

 

[Gordon]

I'm writing on an Internet forum, not an essay that I would be graded for.
Thanks for your really useless comment, which is uncalled for. However, I
would prefer it if you could just STFU!

Well you said you weren't a moron. Your language proves otherwise.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't know about the tilting; that does seem quite strange. But you might
check on a couple of possibilities:

1. Instead of pasting directly, use Paste Special and choose a more suitable
format.

2. In Tools | Options | General: Web Options | Pictures, choose a higher
resolution. I don't know that this has any effect on embedded pictures in
print documents, however.

I assume you've checked that the PDF was created with a high-resolution
setting for graphics. Also, have you tried printing the document to make
sure that the poor quality is not just a screen artifact? I find that some
types of graphics display quite poorly in Word but print perfectly well (and
the reverse, too, of course).

Also, you might try posting in microsoft.public.word.drawing.graphics, where
your post would more likely attract the attention of users with more
graphics expertise.

 

[anonymousX]

Come on, Gordon, if you can't help, wouldn't it be better to keep your crap
to yourself?

It's not like the language's "broken", it is just lax, like what is said,
this is an Internet forum, not a graded essay.

Trash trawling on the Internet these days...

 

[Ristar]

NICE!

So, instead of helping by giving a good answer, you choose to concentrate on
the English language.


Go ahead and "feel superior", by insulting my standard of English, my IQ and
educational level, Gordon. I'm sure you need it to feel good about yourself.
Heh.

I refuse to partake in this stupidity any longer.

 

[Gordon]

Come on, Gordon, if you can't help, wouldn't it be better to keep your
crap
to yourself?

It's not like the language's "broken", it is just lax, like what is said,
this is an Internet forum, not a graded essay.

Trash trawling on the Internet these days...

Well the OP said he was at "university" not me.....

 

[Ristar]

thanks Suzanne, the .doc (im guessing, since i printed the worst looking
page) prints fine, but looks like crap on the screen.

i wish something can be done to fix the crappy display.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Like you, I wish the display were better, but unless you're planning to
circulate the document electronically, I'd just settle for knowing that it
will print okay. If you do in fact plan to circulate it electronically, it
would probably be better to convert the graphic to a format that is better
adapted to screen display.

I actually see the opposite result: graphics that don't look *very* bad in
Word but look horrible when the doc is converted to PDF (but print okay).

 

[anonymousX]

Gordon, you do realise how lame you sound, do you not?

Just because somebody is studying in a University, does not mean that he/she
has to type in perfect English everywhere.

I hope he does it for his papers (I think anyone who is sane would), but on
the Internet, if he chooses to type in "IRC"-speak, or "IM"-speak, it should
not be a problem. And doing so is definitely not indicative of one's
educational level, intelligence, or whatever. Unless he is writing in broken
English and saying things that does not make sense to anyone. In fact, I was
surprised by your assertion that typing in "IM"-speak reflects poorly on him.

As for his "uni" thing, I think he was trying to crack a joke.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Well where did that come from? How do I know you are a university student
and not an average Word user (who knows little about Word). Nothing in your
post suggests that you are a brilliant university student with extensive
knowledge of Word: I have to assume that the question is coming from an
average user.

Your inference to low quality made me believe that they started out as low
quality as there is nothing to suggest the quality that they were in the
PDF. I still believe that the originals are probably low quality (72dpi)
images that don't like the transposition to a different format.

Be assured that I wasn't being ageist either, unlike you who suggests that
old people are bumbling fools. FYI, many of the Word MVPs are sufficiently
senior to be your grandfather or grandmother and have forgotten more about
Word than you will ever know.

NOWHERE DID I SUGGEST THAT YOU ARE A MORON: you suggested that.

Terry

 

[Sunny]

I'm writing on an Internet forum, not an essay that I would be graded
for.
Thanks for your really useless comment, which is uncalled for. However,
I
would prefer it if you could just STFU!

Personally, I prefer your "some bumbling old fool who's trying to learn
how to use a
computer and thinks that a mouse is a black thing that steals food and
runs
very fast"

Rather than a self proclaimed University Student, who classes Usenet as
"Internet forum" as an excuse to talk down to everyone.

(Must be nice to be young enough to know everything?)