Picture quality in Word

Squirrel | 20:11 Thu 31st Jul 2003 | Technology

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I like to use Microsoft Word to arrange photographs on a page when I intend to print them, but I get the impression that Word is reducing the resolution / quality of the images. Am I imagining this?

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it could be that the resolution of the images is not high in the first place. Screen resolution is only 72 dots per inch, but print resolution is usually at least 300 dpi, which means that pics that look good on the screen look dodgy when printed out. Check the resolution of your original images in an image editor such as Photoshop.

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I'm probably imagining it then. But I know I'm not imagining it when I copy the picture to clipboard from Word and then into a different program, such as Paintshop Pro. For example, a 3498 x 2544 image was shrunk to just 456 x 331 pixels. Is there a way of preventing this?

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