MS Word insert picture always too big!
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What is the deal with word, all I want to do is import a .jpg file and have it show up in my document at the correct size. This has bothered me for years, I insert the image and it shows up at some random larger resolution and looks blurry. And on top of that it claims to be at a resolution of 100% so there is no quick way for me to figure out how big it even is to scale it down to the actual pixel size, and they don't even use pixel size, I don't really give a shit about how many centimeters image is I work in pixels. What a frustration anyone know how to make this program not suck?
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InDesign is a dream for stuff like that, planting images and have text flow nicely around the images or a design grid. All magazines and commercial prints are done with either InDesign or Quark and not word.
This is just for documenting our pipeline and work flows at the office, I have to write a lot of documents for the art team so it's ideal to just use something agile like word since I'm constantly editing and revisiting don't really want to learn Indesign or Quark since this is all internal, doesn't have to look nice I just want it to look not the wrong size. So lame!
Like you said, it changed nothing
When right clicking on image, format picture, "reset picture" :thumbdown:
But then I went to the "size" paragraph and clicked this "reset picture" button and tada it did what I expected :thumbup:
So to clear it up - hope the image works:
http://www.appligent.com/adobeaccessibility/images/AdobeAccessChapter320.gif
Not under the "Picture" but under "Size" paragraph, that's what did the trick for me. Maybe that's what you're looking for ?
I am not sure if somewhere in the word settings there is something to influence that.
But most CG images are automatically set to 72 or 96 DPI, which makes them print pretty large (and blurry).
Best bet is to reset the images' DPI to 300 before loading them in Word. XnView can do this in a batch, so can Photoshop. XnView = Resize with Resample unchecked, Units = 300 pixels/inch.