One thing that frustrated me no end about my job is that Engineers and Technical Writers do everything in Word. Ok, maybe not everything; but just about.
You wouldn't believe the number of times I was told to make a brochure (sticking to our dull and disgustingly purple corporate standard of course) and given no more than a Word document full
of bullet points and embedded image. Actually, if you're in a similar position, maybe you would. But in any case, I found getting those images out an absolute nightmare!
I don't know if you've tried this, and if it's any different in Word 2007, but in 2003 and earlier
you can't just copy and paste those images straight out of Word into Photoshop. It has a seizure
and loses colours somewhere in between. My solution was to make the pic full size, screencap it, paste it into Photoshop, stitching together if required, and then going from there.
After much delving into countless forums and blogs and other unspeakables, I finally found the answer, and now I want to share it around. I want everyone to know this, in case they are handed a Word doc and expected to deal with it.
Copy from Word, paste into Powerpoint. From there, you can recopy for a perfect paste into Photoshop, or even just right-click and save directly as a jpg or whatever. It sometimes helps to reset the image in Word's image format options first, or your image may get shrunk in the
wash.
So, there you have it. Pass it on. It will come in handy to someone one day, and they will be
glad that you told them. Promise.
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