Hey all -- dumb question.
I have stuff that I want to put together into a Word and PDF document. Half of the stuff is just word processing. The other half is word processing, as run through an image program (i.e., add marks to the words). Any ideas how I can get the highest resolution image for the image files?
I'm fiddling around with screen resolution, but I wonder if I mightn't be best served by fiddling around with file format. Currently I'm using TIFs, but when I pop them into the Word doc, they sit right next to ordinary word-processed words, and don't look the same. The words look like words, and the images look like somebody took a grainy photograph of words. Which, is accurate, but I'm trying to minimize that effect.
I know that the real pros do this with Quark on a Mac, but I don't have that option. I tried out EPS, which I thought would be the next best thing, but EPS came out looking really really wrong for text.
Any ideas?
Well, you'll want to use an image format with lossless compression. Make sure you're using LZW compression with the TIF or you might try the PNG file format. Stay away from JPG.
Also, what are you trying to accomplish? If you just want non-horizontal text, you might try WordArt (see also Insert > Text Box) from within Word.
No, it's a lot more complicated than that. I need to cross out text, copy/paste in editing marks (which I've already created), and insert new text in a new color above a line. I can do all that in Corel -- and wow, Paint Shop Pro has gotten so much nicer in the 10 years since I first downloaded it!! -- but it's the original capture/saveage of the text into image format that is the stumbling-block.
I can go with the low-res TIFs I have; I'd just prefer to find something that doesn't look so grainy.
TIFs shouldn't be grainy. Make sure that, in the image editing program, you're using 300dpi as the image resolution.
but it's the original capture/saveage of the text into image format that is the stumbling-block.
Oh wait! Are you doing a screen capture as your source image? Can you instead create the text from scratch in Corel or PSP at 300dpi? Or if you need to do a screen capture, maybe you can magnify the text you want to capture to 400% before you capture it?
Well, I'm trying to repro the look of the stuff that is coming from (and staying in) Word. That means preserving the turn lines as they would look in an 8.5 x 11 document. I can mock that up manually, but it'll be a pain in the butt.
I didn't realize that I could adjust the DPI in Corel. I knew about the magnify-then-capture trick, but had only been going up to like 150%. I'll try both of those.
Can you just use the word document and use the cross through characteristic in the font?
No. (1) I need the text in black and the crossout in blue; and (2) most of the crossouts get a little "insert something here" caret below the line and an inserted word/phrase above. Word can't handle that.
I'm resigned to doing the art files; and if Jon's suggestions work, they'll actually look OK.
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