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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / September 2008How can I compress a graphic/image in a file
Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel In a previous version of Word it was possible to compress a graphic/image and which then gave you an option to compress all other graphics/images in the same file. This was fantastic because it would greatly reduce the file size and make it more easily emailed. Saves using a zip software to reduce a file. I don't think Mac Word has ever had this feature. PC Word 2003 and later can crop and re-sample images to reduce their size. Mac Word 2004 could crop images. Word 2008 can't, it has no raster graphic editor in it. You will need to use an external graphics program to compress your images. There is no point in Zipping a .docx file, it already IS a .zip file, with a different extension. And there is no point in Zipping graphics: they will not compress any further than they already have been (without losing quality). Hope this helps On 4/09/08 1:09 PM, in article 59b589fa.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > same file. This was fantastic because it would greatly reduce the file size > and make it more easily emailed. Saves using a zip software to reduce a file.  SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name Hi John - Just to avoid confusion You can crop images in 2008 just as always. What 2007 [and perhaps 2003] offers that 2008 doesn't is that there is an option to have the cropped area deleted from the file. <snip> On 9/4/08 5:35 AM, in article C4E5E1E1.18D72%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > Mac Word 2004 could crop images. Word 2008 can't, it has no raster graphic > editor in it. <snip> Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac Hi Bob: Quite correct!! An operation I would refer to as "masking", and I wish Microsoft would do so also!! The Office 2008 "crop" command is actually a "mask" command. But what the OP is missing is Word 2003's "Crop and resample" command, which is a very handy one-click shrink... Cheers On 4/09/08 10:44 PM, in article C4E5578E.4259C%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, "Bob Jones" <onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net> wrote: > Hi John - > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Bob Jones > [MVP] Office:Mac SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name Not that I disagree, John, but you can't really fault MS on the semantics... After all, Photoshop uses the same terminology. If you want to *delete* the cropped area from a image it requires an extra step :-) and "masking" is an editing tool as well as having other implications (such as layer masks & clipping masks). Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/7/08 5:57 AM, in article C4E9DBB9.18EBA%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > Hi Bob: > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Bob Jones >> [MVP] Office:Mac Harrumph!!! In CorelDRAW (and, I think, in Illustrator...) "Crop" means "Cut off the pixels outside the selected area!" What Word is doing would be referred to as "Lens From Mask" if I wanted to be pedantic. But you know me, unlike that Huggan creature, pedantry is completely unknown in my lexicon... Cheers On 7/09/08 9:02 PM, in article C4E9341D.42850%onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net, "Bob Jones" <onlygeneraltaz1@com.cast.net> wrote: > Not that I disagree, John, but you can't really fault MS on the semantics... > After all, Photoshop uses the same terminology. If you want to *delete* the [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>> Bob Jones >>> [MVP] Office:Mac SignatureDon't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/ Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:john@mcghie.name So if "pedantry" is *completely unknown* in your lexicon, Mr McGhie, as distinct from, say, *very infrequently used*, how is it that you can draw on that word as a resource to express your profundities? I am unutterably sorry, Minister; am I, too, pedantic? Yours obsequiously, Bernard Woolley Room 500B Palace of Westminster (My time zone is 5-8 hours different from the Americas, so my follow-on responses to that region can be delayed. It is 9-11 hours different from the Antipodes, but Sir Humphrey does not allow me to reply to those awful people, especially those from the far reaches of the Shaky Isles, whether at home or in exile in other unfortunate countries.) =========== On 8/9/08 7:25 PM, in article C4EB25AB.18F4B%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > Harrumph!!! In CorelDRAW (and, I think, in Illustrator...) "Crop" means > "Cut off the pixels outside the selected area!" [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] >>>> Bob Jones >>>> [MVP] Office:Mac Just for information: while not having anything to contribute relating to Word's [in]capabilities in this area, I strongly recommend ImageWell for allowing very precise sizing of images inserted (via Insert menu => Picture) into Word documents. Cheers, Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed) ==================================================== On 7/9/08 7:57 PM, in article C4E9DBB9.18EBA%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: > Hi Bob: > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Bob Jones >> [MVP] Office:Mac |
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